“Nearly a generation before The Feminine Mystique, Jackson’s stories explore the claustrophobia that often accompanies marriage and motherhood, and the desperation to which it might drive a woman.”
Ruth Franklin at The New Republic on Shirley Jackson and “the challenge of being both a mother and a writer.”
(via The Book Bench)
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