On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, farah mendlesohn wrote:
> The American City, I set a passage from Sarah and Elizabeth
> Delany's Having Our Say. The class positively glowed... they loved
> the extract, both male and female students and have all bounced off
> to read more, and this despite the strong feminism that comes from
> both women in their different ways. Being told that they were related
> to Samuel Delany, whose short story they read the week before, sent
> some of them back to that. Sometimes it can really work.
I love Sadie and Bessie Delany too. _Having Our Say_ is beautifully
done, mostly because it paints these women so fantastically.
I had no idea they were related to Samuel Delany. How so?
Andrea Klein
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