Ex-Wife (Ursula Parrott)

Ex-Wife
Image of 2023 book jacket published by McNally Editions
McNally Editions book jacket
AuthorUrsula Parrott
SubjectAdultery Fiction, Divorce Fiction, Divorced women Fiction, Nineteen twenties Fiction, Self-realization in women Fiction
GenreNovel
Published1929, 1930, 1989, 2023
PublisherJ. Cape & H. Smith [1929]; Grosset & Dunlap [1930]; New American Library [1989]; McNally Editions [2023].
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, E-book, Audio
Pages210+
ISBN9781946022561 9781946022578
OCLC1347428967
WebsitePublisher's website

Ex-Wife is a 1929 novel written by Ursula Parrott and reissued by McNally Editions in 2023 with an afterword by Marc Parrott, the author's son, and a foreword by Alissa Bennett, a writer for the Paris Review.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ Jacobs, Alexandra (30 April 2023). "She Wrote Frankly About Divorce, and Suffered the Consequences". New York Times.
  2. ^ Bennett, Alissa (21 April 2023). "Divorcée Fiction: On Ursula Parrott". Paris Review.
  3. ^ Oates, Joyce Carol (July 2023). "None-Too-Gay Divorcées". The New York Review of Books.
  4. ^ Winter, Jessica (3 May 2023). "The Divorce Novel That Captured the Mores of Jazz Age New York". The New Yorker.
  5. ^ Raub, Patricia (1994). "A New Woman or an Old-Fashioned Girl? The Portrayal of the Heroine in Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties". American Studies. 35 (1): 109–130. JSTOR 40642587. "Ex-Wife" is discussed on pages 118-119
  6. ^ Fletcher, Jessica (July 10, 2023). "The Dark Side of the Jazz Age". The Baffler. Retrieved August 9, 2023.