Figures of Force
Mothers, Daughters, and Angry Affect in 20th and 21st-Century Memoir
“Thanks to me, Angryface was a member of our family—and unlike me,
Angryface was always there.” — Joy Ladin
A perusal of the 1845 issue of Gody’s Lady Book reveals a magazine dedicated to the heroic virtues and domestic powers of the many faces of the “American woman,” from “Quaker friend,” to “Farmer’s wife,” to “P…