It includes work by Katherine Mansfield, Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Jolley, Jamaica Kincaid, and Carter herself. She carefully avoided identifying bad girls with sexual profligates, but looked for a certain cussedness, a bloodymindedness..
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Laws-Wall, Lydia. “One of a kind”. Mslexia, No. 48, Jan. 2011, p. 53.