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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In Elizabeth Jolley's "The Last Crop," a seemingly guileless woman cons a man out of his land. In Leonora Carrinton's "The Debutante," a young girl sends a hyena to her coming-out ball, with disastrous results. The title character in Frances Towers's "Violet" uses her talent for witchcraft with wicked intention. Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" faces a litany of her mother's strictures and admonishments, and Suniti Namjoshi's bittersweet fables suggest that nothing a woman does will ever be really right. But whether these women are bad or good, evil or benign, guilty or innocent, calculating or naive, they are not victims. None of them suffers passively at the hands of men. Each manages to confront her circumstances and sometimes, though not always, triumph over them. About the AuthorAngela Carter (1940 -1992) wrote nine novels and numerous short stories, as well as nonfiction, radio plays, and the screenplay for Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves, based on her story. She won numerous literary awards, traveled and taught widely in the United States, and lived in London. Table of Contents Wayward Girls and Wicked Women Acknowledgments Introduction ELIZABETH JOLLEY: The Last Crop LEONORA CARRINGTON: The Débutante ROCKY GÁMEZ: from The Gloria Stories BESSIE HEAD: Life JANE BOWLES: A Guatemalan Idyll KATHERINE MANSFIELD: The Young Girl SUNITI NAMJOSHI: Three Feminist Fables COLETTE: The Rainy Moon GEORGE EGERTON: Wedlock FRANCES TOWERS: Violet AMA ATA AIDOO: The Plums GRACE PALEY: A Woman Young and Old ANDRÉE CHEDID: The Long Trial ANGELA CARTER: The Loves of Lady Purple DJUNA BARNES: The Earth VERNON LEE: Oke of Okehurst JAMAICA KINCAID: Girl LUO SHU: Aunt Liu Notes on the Authors
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