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In 13 superb essays that first appeared in Vogue and The New Yorker, Kennedy Fraser explores the uniquely female voice and presence in literature and art. Interspersing vignettes from her own life with history and anecdotes surrounding such notable literary personages as Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, Fraser provides a personal, informative, brilliant, and compassionate book.

"...[T]he book is studded through with the sort of joyous, alert description that is uncommonly encountered in journalism or in criticism. As an almost faultless master of tone, Fraser is able to pass from scene to scene with a selfless vitality. You don't forget her presence..., but she never obscures the story she wants to tell."

Kirkus, 09/01/1996

"[T]he excellence of Kennedy Fraser's writing on fashion and glamour has perhaps been equaled but has never been surpassed. In the seventies and early eighties, she continually noticed juxtapositions lost on almost everyone else....Despite a battalion of journalists on the fashion beat..., none write with Fraser's flair or authority....As the brilliance of her two previous books and the best of her new one show, fashion writing is--or can be--a lens through which to view the world."

Bruce Hainley, Nation, 02/03/1997

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