The Story of Avis

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Book Overview

Avis is a nineteenth-century painter who strives to keep herself free of marriage and entanglements. As a child, Avis decides that given a woman's options of marriage or being a "lady," "I think I'd rather keep dogs." She is caught all the same, by a "modern man" and through her life, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps describes the struggle of a woman to be wife, mother, and artist. Although Avis declares and her fiance agrees that she must not "resign my profession...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813510996
• ISBN13: 9780813510996
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Avis needs psychological help with children and husband

Anyone out there that can help me in trying to explain with the psychological struggle she went through with her children, husband, career,and life in general would be appreciated.