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The girls by Edna Ferber explores women, world war, 1914-1918, in literature.
The girls is a work by Edna Ferber. Its subjects include Women, World War, 1914-1918, In literature.
From the opening pages: “It is a question of method. Whether to rush you up to the girls pellmell, leaving you to become acquainted as best you can; or, with elaborate slyness, to slip you so casually into their family life that they will not even glance up when you enter the room, or leave it; or to present the three of them in solemn order according to age, epoch, and story. This last would mean beginning with great-aunt Charlotte Thrift, spinster, aged seventy-four; thence to her niece and namesake Lottie Payson, spinster, aged thirty-two; finishing with Lottie's niece and namesake Charley Kemp, spinster, aged eighteen and a half--you may be certain nobody ever dreamed of calling _her_ Charlotte. If you are led by all this to exclaim, aghast, "A story about old maids!"--you are right. It is. Though, after all, perhaps one couldn't call great-aunt Charlotte an old maid. When a woman has achieved seventy-four, a virgin, there is about her something as…”
