The magnificent spinster

May Sarton

earliest edition we have, 1985 W W Norton & Co Inc, 1989 384 pages

G.K. Hall large print book series

The story becomes a complex "double fiction" through which we experience both Cam's struggles and triumphs and the dominant story of Jane Reid. Jane was born a Boston Brahmin, granddaughter of a legendary man of letters. Tall, beautiful, wealthy, she was pursued by men but was the intimate of women. Just out of Vassar, she went to France to work in an orphange for World War 1 victims, and forty years later to Germany...

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Magnificent Spinster edition · 2002 · W. W. Norton & Company · 384 pages · 9780393312492
The Magnificent Spinster edition · 1989 · W W Norton & Co Inc · 384 pages · 9780393305609
The magnificent spinster edition · 1987 · G.K. Hall · 468 pages
magnificent spinster edition · 1986 · Women's Press · 384 pages
The magnificent spinster edition · 1985 · Norton · 384 pages

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