PRETTY GOOD FOR A WOMAN

by Evelyn Scott, E. Dunn, D. A. Callard, Pseudonym

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First edition

The enigmas of Evelyn Scott. Pp. xiv+202, 8 plates, bibliography, index; dust wrapper; Jonathan Cape, London, 1985. First edition. *At the age of twenty, Elsie Dunn caused a scandal among the Southern aristocracy of Louisiana by eloping with a married man twenty-four years her senior. Adopting the pseudonym of Evelyn Scott, she championed the writing of William Faulkner, James Joyce, and Jean Rhys, and her own, often experimental writing, earned her critical and sometimes popular

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