Caroline Gordon Summary

Caroline Gordon visited France twice during the twenties and thirties, in 1928-1929 and again in 1932-1933. She wrote much of her first two novels while living abroad, and she and her husband, poet Al... Read more

Although Caroline Gordon was far more productive as a novelist than as a short-story writer (she published nine novels and two story collections--not including her Collected Stories [1981]--plus a s... Read more

Critical Essay by Ashley Brown [Miss Gordon] is a conscious heiress to what is probably the central tradition of modern fiction, which we can refer to, following some of its great practitioners, as t... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert S. Dupree The twentieth century has been blessed with a number of excellent artists who have also been significant critics. The best of these have gone beyond the kind of act... Read more

Critical Essay by Andrew Lytle It will be my assumption that writers of Miss Gordon's vision have but one subject. On one level hers is in the fullest sense traditional and historic. By this I... Read more

Critical Essay by W. J. Stuckey Despite the praise, the reputation, and the acknowledged importance of Miss Gordon's work, her fiction has not received the kind of critical attention one might... Read more

Critical Essay by Anne Tyler [Caroline Gordon's] territory is the South—specifically Kentucky, in that time not so long ago when families still kept track of first cousins twice removed... Read more

Critical Essay by Jennifer Uglow From the start one is aware in Gordon's fiction of a decisive, directing set of values. Indeed, her insistent conservatism seems to demand a personal response,... Read more

Critical Review by Herschel Brickell Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the wor... Read more

Jane Gibson Brown Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the work I'm doing ... Read more

Critical Essay by Larry Allums Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the work I&#x... Read more

Critical Review by Katherine Anne Porter Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the... Read more

Critical Review by Richard Sullivan Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the work... Read more

Critical Review by John W. Simons Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the work I... Read more

Critical Essay by Brainard Cheney Right. So, it's now eight years. I've many, many notebooks, but what I see when I examine the notebooks now are phases of development toward the work I... Read more