Education
Born in New York City, Seton graduated from the Fieldston School and then Smith College in 1948.
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No woman is an island. In its broadest sense, this novel is concerned with the question of equality between men and women. Angela Lewes is the exemplary wife of an academic, a wonderfully accomplished housewife and mother. As she approaches forty a balky interior independent self begins to emerge from beneath her role-playing and finally brings into question the continuance of a marriage that has been warm and enriching to her.
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“An elegantly written comedy of manners, constructed around serious ideas―ideas jovially and sometimes outrageously explored by a group of civilized people. . . .It has been a long time since so much sparkling, quirky talk has appeared in an American novel. . . .This novel is a pure, a rare delight.” ―Eugenia Thornton, ―Cleveland Plain Dealer “Shines with elusive insights about persons we recognize at once as acquaintances and friends, caught briefly in events that are part of their upper-class life, part of their inevitable sexual prisons, part of their middle age. To be able to say consistently interesting things about these embroilments―class, sex, age―is a triumph for a novelist. Cynthia Propper Seton has pulled off just such a triumph.” ―Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times
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“Cynthia Propper Seton has created one of the decade’s most noble, intelligent, and endearing heroines. . . .How does A Glorious Third compare with A Fine Romance, Seton’s highly acclaimed last novel? That’s like comparing Pride and Prejudice with Emma. Both Seton novels are graced by deadly accurate domestic comedy, by a sphere of action that is limited but somehow universal, and by writing that’s funny, powerful and downright wonderful.” ―Carol Greenberg Gelsenthal, Chicago Tribune Book World “Cynthia Propper Seton’s newest novel is a gem of a comedy. With delectable wit and glittering style, Seton examines the leisured urban upper-middle class, its guilts and self-deceptions, its integrity, poignant strivings, and resignation. . . .The author is a veritable gourmet chef of the language, whipping up verbal delights on every page.” ―Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Saturday Review
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Born in New York City, Seton graduated from the Fieldston School and then Smith College in 1948.
She lived in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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( No woman is an island. In its broadest sense, this no...)