Research Catalog

Title

Death of a mother : daughters' stories / edited by Rosa Ainley.

Publication

London : HarperCollins, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ainley, Rosa.

Description

xxx, 232 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"This collection of over thirty non-fiction pieces by women about the death of their mothers spans a startlingly diverse range of emotions and experience, ranging from hatred and relief to deepest love and despair. The common theme for all is their eschewing of conventional wisdom, both about relations between mothers and daughters and about grief. Some pieces are funny, others very raw, but all are deeply felt." "Collected here are contributions from well-known writers - including poems from May Sarton and Marilyn Hacker - as well as new writers. With a foreword by psychologist Dorothy Rowe, this book will be of great interest not only to those of us who have already experienced our mother's death, but to anyone who wants to gain insights into one of the most difficult and enlightening emotional journeys most of us will ever make."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Mothers and daughters
• Children and death > Literary collections
• Mother-Child Relations
• Bereavement
• Grief

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An Ordinary Experience / Valerie Smith -- New Grey Coat / Leland Bardwell -- Case Notes / Rachel Williams -- Annemie / Margaret Jacobs -- 'Mother' / Marilyn Hacker -- The Distance Between Them / Sally St Clair -- Silhouette on the Wall / Rahila Gupta -- The Third Child / Mandy Rose -- 'Autumn 1980' / Marilyn Hacker -- Cravings / Shirley P. Cooper -- The Other Mother / Shireen Sheikh -- Paralysis / Susan Ardill -- 'A Hard Death' / May Sarton -- Stuck in Time / Barbara James -- Yellow Topping: Martha Joy Marr / Emma Hindley -- Dreams of my Mother comfort me / Caroline Halliday -- 'Poem for the Dancer' / Carol Tilbury -- Be 'Someone' / Zelda Curtis -- 'January 20th' / Robyn Selman -- YOU were not my Mother / Julie Bellian -- Telephone Box in France / Helen Pausacker -- John Lennon is dead: In Memoriam / Norma Cohen -- Where's Ma? / Gail Chester -- Three-dimensional pictures / Lynden Easterbrook -- Singleton Park / Jo Hughes -- Learning to Scream / Suzanne Bosworth -- My Mother was a Footballer: the Truth and Everything But / Rosa Ainley -- 'Of Grief' / May Sarton -- Charmian / Jill Posener -- One Pushed, One Pulled, Three Nurtured / Shirley P. Cooper -- 'Signing On and Signing Off' / Frances Kenton -- Unspoken Thoughts / Moira McLean -- Planning a Funeral.

ISBN

0044409281 (pbk) :

LCCN

gb^95025274^

OCLC

32204290

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library