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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... remembering , talking , listening , watching , and writing , writing , I think of the afternoon in 1995 when I sat in a quiet corner in a coffee shop at the University of Calgary with Penney Kome , an established writer and an edi- tor ...
The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie Audrey Andrews. This page intentionally left blank Dear Dorothy May 1995 Dear Dorothy , Do you remember.
... remember a late winter afternoon after school when you and Ann and I sat at your kitchen table eating graham wafers ? You urged us to spread them liberally with honey , showing us by elaborate gestures of plea- sure how much better they ...
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... remember when I realized with anger and resentment that the act of waiting , like many expectations of women , was imbued with patience , virtue , and romance , and that those who expect it of us consid- er it proof of our true feminine ...