Be Good, Sweet Maid: The Trials of Dorothy JoudrieWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1999/10/25 - 275 ページ January 21, 1995: Dorothy Joudrie is arrested for attempting to murder her estranged husband. Soon after, Audrey Andrews begins to write her book. Audrey and Dorothy had known each other as children, but the identification of Andrews with Joudrie goes beyond merely the accident of a childhood acquaintance. It has to do with being subjected to the same societal constraints placed on girls and women during the years immediately following World War II, the years in which they had prepared for their adult lives. Expectations, placidly accepted then, are now seen as unrealistic and unreasonable. Did these expectations have some part in causing the tragedy in Dorothy Joudrie’s life? When Andrews attempted to understand why Dorothy Joudrie had tried to kill her husband, and to write Joudrie’s story, she began to examine her own life, her own expectations — those she had of herself and those others had of her. She also realized that telling the story of anyone is an intricate and often ephemeral pursuit. Any story she wrote could only be her version of Joudrie’s experience. Nevertheless, it was important to be as honest as she could about her interpretation of that life. She determined to show carefully and accurately the damage that had been done to one woman — damage that is still being done to many others — through prejudice, attitudes, traditions and the institutions that are still the foundation of our society, and of our lives, everyday. The result is a fascinating account of events leading up to the trial, the trial itself and the effect of Joudrie’s trial on the life of Audrey Andrews. |
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... listened , endlessly , to what I wrote . Also , he , our family , and the small group of women , The Wednesday Circle , with whom I meet weekly for coffee , prompted me with astute comments and questions , and allowed me much more than ...
... listened to me and answered my questions soon after the trial ; later he directed me to Virginia May , Q.C. , for a legal vetting of my manuscript . Virginia May offered me more than legal counsel , for which I thank her . Thanks also ...
... listened to the revelations of her life from her husband , one of her sons , and her daughter , I realized some- thing of what it has cost her to achieve her practised outward composure . Two thoughts came to my mind almost ...
... listened to the police tell us the details of her actions . We had seen the gun , the bullet casings , the bullet holes in Earl's jacket , photographs of his blood on the garage floor . His telling about the incident made it more ...
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