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  • Tillie Olsen
    / Major period

    In Silences (1978) she collected these essays along with quotations from and comments on authors who suffered from the stultifying effects of discrimination and repression. Despite its patchwork form, Silences became enormously influential. Along with a series of early poems called “At Fourteen Years,” her early…

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    In Silences (1978) she collected these essays along with quotations from and comments on authors who suffered from the stultifying effects of discrimination and repression. Despite its patchwork form, Silences became enormously influential. Along with a series of early poems called “At Fourteen Years,” her early…

    Read More