{"product_id":"the-art-of-the-wife-auriane-benabou-9781632924681","title":"The Art of the Wife and Other Stories","description":"As the turn of the twentieth century announced widespread social and political reform, women across countries, ages, relationships, and classes were reconsidering how their lives were structured. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe work of Lucia Bronder is one of the clearest answers to these questions in the American context. Writing under the pseudonym of Lilith Benda-a choice perhaps made because she was still living with her parents and writing was largely considered a profession unsuitable for women-little information is known about her other than that she was a Brooklynite of Polish-Jewish descent from a relatively prosperous family. Yet writing also indicates a familiarity with both New York's literary circles and the political debates swirling around feminism and marriage at the time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBronder's stories appeared almost exclusively in The Smart Set under the editorship of H. L. Mencken, who was attuned to her self- doubting tendencies. \"She seems to me the most cunning newcomer that has bobbed up in a year past,\" he wrote to poet and critic Louis Untermeyer in April 1916. \"Unluckily, she is full of delusions that her stuff is very bad and it is a hard job to make her write at all.\" Yet her subtly humorous and biting critiques of both marriage and the vapidity of American upper classes made for a perfect addition to the magazine's roster, at times gracing its cover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Auriane Benabou,Lucia Bronder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1632924684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632924681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Times Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Auriane Benabou","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800455491839,"sku":"9781632924681","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-the-wife-auriane-benabou-9781632924681","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}