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| Acknowledgments | ix | ||
| PREFACE Toward a Reappraisal of Dorothy West's Work | xi | ||
| INTRODUCTION Dorothy West and Her Circle | 3 | (46) | |
| Carolina | 49 | (8) | |
| At the Swan Boats | 57 | (6) | |
| Blackberrying | 63 | (4) | |
| Quilting | 67 | (3) | |
| Prologue to a Life | 70 | (9) | |
| Hannah Byde | 79 | (7) | |
| The Black Dress | 86 | (2) | |
| My Baby | 88 | (6) | |
| Mammy | 94 | (8) | |
| Pluto | 102 | (3) | |
| The House Across the Way | 105 | (9) | |
| Mrs. Marlowe | 114 | (4) | |
| The Stairs | 118 | (4) | |
| Where the Wild Grape Grows | 122 | (38) | |
| Winter on Martha's Vineyard | 160 | (7) | |
| Elephant's Dance A Memoir of Wallace Thurman | 167 | (9) | |
| The Inroads of Time | 176 | (3) | |
| Selected Letters | 179 | (34) | |
| APPENDIX I New York Daily News Stories | 213 | (1) | |
| APPENDIX II Family Tree | 214 |
