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Elizabeth Hardwick was an American novelist known for her profound psychological insights and portrayals of the female experience. Her works often explore love, marriage, and art, and how these themes affect individuals and society.

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Famous Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

“Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of her children on the same moral and emotional level as the leaving of her husband and we cannot, in our hearts, asssent to that. It is not only the leaving but the way the play does not have time for suffering, changes of heart. Ibsen has been too much a man in the end. He has taken the man's practice, if not his stated belief, that where self-realization is concerned children shall not be an impediment.”

Writing Motherhood Ibsen Feminsim A Doll S House

Book:Seduction and Betrayal

Source: Seduction and Betrayal

“A Doll’s House is about money, about the way it turns locks.”

Ibsen A Doll S House

Book:Seduction and Betrayal

Source: Seduction and Betrayal

“The social world of Ibsen’s plays is greatly restricted, enclosed in a narrow frame, cut off by the very geography of Norway; the long, dark winters make for social repetition…Everyone else you know is right there, so to speak. This small-town life has moral consequences always; the players live with the threat of trouble over the most petty matters.”

Ibsen

Book:Seduction and Betrayal

Source: Seduction and Betrayal

About the Author

Born: July 27, 1916
Died: December 2, 2007
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 57

Books & Sources

Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other EssaysRelated source material

Seduction and BetrayalRelated source material

A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and SocietyRelated source material

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and LiteratureRelated source material

Sight-readings: American FictionsRelated source material

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth HardwickRelated source material

Sleepless NightsRelated source material

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