Front Matter
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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“How to tell the difference between a Matisse painting and a Spanish omelette”:: Dorothy Parker, Vogue, and Vanity Fair
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“Brains are really everything”:: Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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“A plumber’s idea of Cleopatra”:: Mae West as Author
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“Astronomers located her in the latitude of Prince Edward Island”:: L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and Early Hollywood
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“The best product of this century”:: Margaret Kennedy’s The Constant Nymph
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“Literature or just sheer flapdoodle?”:: Stella Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm
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“Wildest hopes exceeded”:: E. M. Delafield’s Diary of a Provincial Lady
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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