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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.


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As the second oldest child Barnes spent much of her childhood helping care for siblings and half-siblings. She referred to the rape obliquely in her first novel Ryder and more directly in her furious final play The Antiphon. Her paternal grandmother Zadel Turner Barnes was a writer journalist and Women's Suffrage activist who had once hosted an influential literary salon.

As a roman à clef the novel features a thinly veiled portrait of Barnes in the character of Nora Flood whereas Nora’s lover Robin Vote is a composite of Thelma Wood and the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Eliot. Since Barnes' death interest in her work has grown and many of her books are back in print.

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