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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ursula_ParrottUrsula Parrott - Wikipedia

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   Ursula Parrott (March 26, 1899 – September 1957), was a prolific modern novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer whose sensational first novel, Ex-Wife (1929), was a Jazz Age best seller. Adapted for film as The Divorcee , it starred Norma Shearer .

   • Language: English
   • Born: Katherine Ursula Towle, March 26, 1899, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

   • Nationality: American
   • Died: September 1957 (aged 58), New York City, United States

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2023/04/30 › booksCritic’s Notebook: Rediscovering Ursula Parrott and ‘Ex-Wife ...

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   Apr 30, 2023 · A reissue of Ursula Parrott’s racy novel “Ex-Wife,” and a new biography of its author, remind us of the brazenly talented women sidelined by convention. The novelist Ursula Parrott, left ...

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4. www.neh.gov › article › ursula-parrott-and-secretUrsula Parrott and the Secret Lives of Ex-Wives | The ...

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   Apr 18, 2023 · Ursula’s debut novel branded her in ways that were simultaneously profitable and impossible to shake. Parrott became known as a specialist in “‘the maladjustment emotionally’ of women whose marriages had gone on the rocks” at a time when the number of women who fit this description was growing. If a journalist in the 1930s was writing ...

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   Who was Ursula Parrott?

   • It was published anonymously—a not uncommon marketing gimmick of the time—but the author was soon outed in Winchell’s newspaper column as Ursula Parrott, a thirty-year-old first-time novelist, the daughter of a respected Boston physician, a Radcliffe graduate, a single mother of a young son, and a verified ex-wife.

   The Divorce Novel That Captured the Mores of Jazz Age New York

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   What happened to Ursula Parrott?

   • Ursula Parrott became “sufficiently important,” and then she was forgotten. Widely read and highly sought after in her heyday, she suffered the fate of many women authors of her time, dismissed as a money-writer churning out romantic pablum for undiscerning female readers.

   Ursula Parrott and the Secret Lives of Ex-Wives

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   When was Ursula Parrott's 'ex-wife' published?

   • Ursula Parrott’s “Ex-Wife” caused a sensation when it was published in 1929. But it wasn’t the racy, frothy endorsement of sexual liberation readers were primed to expect. In the summer of 1929, a provocative New York novel titled “ Ex-Wife ” arrived in bookstores, quickly selling out its first printing.

   The Divorce Novel That Captured the Mores of Jazz Age New York

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   Who was Marc Parrott?

   • in 1988, Marc Parrott, a retired schoolteacher and librarian, died in Honolulu at the age of 64. He left behind his wife, Janice S.M. Parrott; sons, John M. of Philadelphia and Richard K. of California; and a grandchild.

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ex-Wife_(Ursula_Parrott)Ex-Wife (Ursula Parrott) - Wikipedia

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   Ex-Wife is a 1929 novel written by Ursula Parrott and reissued by McNally Editions in 2023 with an afterword by Marc Parrott, the author's son, and a foreword by Alissa Bennett, a writer for the Paris Review.

   • Author: Ursula Parrott
   • Genre: Novel

   • Country: United States
   • Published: 1929, 1930, 1989, 2023

7. www.newyorker.com › books › second-readThe Divorce Novel That Captured the Mores of Jazz Age New ...

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   May 3, 2023 · Ursula Parrott’s “Ex-Wife” caused a sensation when it was published in 1929. But it wasn’t the racy, frothy endorsement of sexual liberation readers were primed to expect.

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     Biographer Marsha Gordon's Ursula Parrott Lecture at the Boston Athenaeum, November 29, 2023

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9. nationalhumanitiescenter.org › fellows-bookBecoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten ...

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   Credited with popularizing the label “ex-wife” in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women. Her best sellers, Hollywood film deals, marriages and divorces, and run-ins with the law made her a household name.

10. theconversation.com › why-have-you-read-the-greatWhy have you read ‘The Great Gatsby’ but not Ursula Parrott’s

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    Aug 23, 2023 · Ursula Parrott was a successful and influential writer in the 1920s and 1930s, but her work is largely unknown today. Her novel 'Ex-Wife' depicts the challenges and freedoms of women in New York, and was more popular than 'The Great Gatsby' in its time.