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| Christine Mary McGinley | English | The
Words of a Woman A literary mosaic |
Crown Publishers, New York 1999 |
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the author develops her own thoughts, then she turns to the world
literature written by women. Around one third of the aesthetically
presented book consists of quotations from famous female
writers, such as Lou Andreas-Salome, Hannah Arendt, Jane Austen,
Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte und Emily Brontė, Doris Lessing, Anne
Morrow Lindbergh, George Sand, George Eliot, May Sarton, Gabriela
Mistral, Katherine Anne Porter, Simone Weil, Marguerite
Yourcenar, and Virginia Woolf. We also find evidence of the spirit
of Marie Curie, Isadora Duncan, Florence Nightingale, Beryl Markham
and Aung San Suu
Kyi.
The author was led to the English translation of Jeanne von Vietinghoff's book "The Understanding of Good" by a quotation in Marguerite Yourcenar's work. An entire quarter of all quotations is devoted to the mother of Egon von Vietinghoff. In the chapter "Words About the Women" Christine Mary McGinley confesses: "Yet of all the hundreds of great works I consumed, it was with hers that I grasped the purpose of writing our deepest truths. For if one person in all of time is affected by our words as I was affected by Jeanne de Vietinghoff's, then our contribution to life has been immense." "Her love and her faith knew no boundary; they filled the whole of her, and radiated from her like a life-giving force from the infinite source she served. I know of no other way to express my praise than to say that because I have known her I will never be the same." |
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