The Story of Avis

The Story of Avis

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Carol Farley Kessler
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Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Genre:Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
Published:1985
ISBN13:9780813510996
ISBN10:0813510996

About the Book

Avis is a nineteenth-century painter who strives to keep herself free of marriage and entanglements. Although Avis declares and her fiance agrees that she must not "resign my profession as an artist," the reality greets her with their first house. Through her life, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps describes the struggle of a woman to be wife, mother, and artist. How modern is the "modern man" and how much do women's roles ever change? This book, written more than one hundred years ago, will still seem very real to many women today.