I'm very grateful to Marilyn French and I'm sure I have a lot of company. Reading "The Women's Room" changed my life (and it needed changing!)
Link to original: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009177198_apusobitfrench.html
The writer and feminist Marilyn French, whose novel "The Women's Room" sold 20 million copies and was translated into 20 languages, has died in New York City.
Carol Jenkins of New York's Women's Media Center says the 79-year-old died of heart failure on Saturday.
Jenkins says French's landmark 1977 novel "connected with millions of women who had no way before of claiming their anger and discontent."
French was teaching college when she wrote the novel about the journey to independence of a 1950s housewife who gets divorced and goes to graduate school. The book mirrored aspects of her own life experiences, including the rape of her daughter.
Her last novel is to be published this fall.
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