2015: The Year of Reading Women discussion

Evelyn Scott (January 17, 1893 – August 3, 1963) was an American novelist, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, Scott "was a significant literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion

I will be reading "The Wave" this year, and hopefully more of her work.

Some background reading can be had here: http://books.google.ca/books?id=Hefw-...


She certainly looks interesting and seems to have fallen into oblivion because of her experimentalism, her feminism and her playfulness with gender and sexuality - all of which was way ahead of her time

I'm very interested, Jonathan -- sounds like timely reading for me as well before I teach History of Sexuality this summer.

Review of The Wave from me here:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

An exceptional piece of work, well worth tracking down.

Made some headway into her massive A Calendar of Sin, which is only part three of her monumental (US) Civil War trilogy -- the first Migrations ; an Arabesque in Historiesand beingThe Wave. So far, Calendar is doing what Jonathan described in The Wave, frequent shifts from character viewpoint to character viewpoint. Really quite something. But do take into earnest consideration that Calendar is subtitled "American Melodramas", as the tone for some characters can enter into the bathic.

Further evidence :: her The Wave has been called the greatest (US) Civil War novel (but how many Civil War buffs have heard of it?) b) Calendar has not a single gr rating/review c) it may be the best 20 literary dollars I've spent this year.

Excellent stuff - am working through Migrations at present, and enjoying it immensely...

Certainly plan to track down some of her later work too as it seems like she continued to push her writing in interesting directions...

Finished her A Calendar of Sin and am looking forward to her The Wave. She deserves a new readership. Definitely worth the SPADE=work!