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    Deare Sister
    Deare Sister
    Deare Sister
    Ebook70 pages57 minutes

    Deare Sister

    By Chris Wind

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    A collection of letters that might have been written by Mozart's mother (to her daughter), one of Milton's daughters (to the others), Rubens' model (to an aspiring successor), Plato's (female) (disguised) students (to each other), and others-assuming a feminist consciousness. What would they say?

    “You are clearly a writer of considerable talent, and your special ability to give expression to so many different characters, each in a uniquely appropriate style, makes your work fascinating and attractive ... . The pieces are often funny, sometimes sensitive, always creative. But they contain an enormous load of anger, and that is where I have problems ... . I know at least one feminist who would read your manuscript with delight (unfortunately she is not a publisher), who would roar with laughter in her sharing of your anger ... ” rejection letter from a small Canadian press
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateNov 1, 2011
    ISBN9781926891071
    Deare Sister
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    Chris Wind

    chris wind has degrees in Literature, Education, and Philosophy. Her poetry has been published in Alpha, The Antigonish Review, Ariel, Atlantis, Bite, Bogg, Canadian Author and Bookman, Canadian Dimension, Canadian Woman Studies, Contemporary Verse 2, The Free Verse Anthology, Girlistic Magazine, grain, Interior Voice, Kola, Mamashee, The New Quarterly, Next Exit, Onionhead, Poetry Toronto, Prism International, Rampike, Shard, The University of Toronto Review, The Wascana Review, Whetstone, White Wall Review, Women's Education des femmes, and three anthologies (Clever Cats, ed. Ann Dubras; Going for Coffee, ed. Tom Wayman; Visions of Poesy, ed. Dennis Gould). "Luncheon on the Grass" was the motive poem for an exhibit by Brooks Bercovitch and Colton at the Galerie Schorer, Montreal (1998). Her prose has been read on CBC Radio and published in ACT, Alpha, American Atheist, The Antigonish Review, Canadian Woman Studies, event, Existere, (f.)Lip, Herizons, Herstoria, The Humanist, Humanist in Canada, Hysteria, The New Quarterly, Other Voices, Secular Nation, and Waves. Her theatrical works have been performed by 27th Letter (UK), Creative Curve (UK), Venus Theatre (US),  Laurel Theater, Alumnae Theatre, Theatre Resource Center, Theatre Asylum, Buddies in Bad Times, and A Company of Sirens (all in Canada). chris wind has received thirteen Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve grants based on publisher and theatre recommendation. chris wind was a panellist at the Canadian National Feminist Poetry Conference (Winnipeg, 1992), and featured in an article in The Montreal Gazette (1994). Lastly, chris wind is listed in "Who's Who in Hell" (probably because of "Faith," "The Great Jump-Off," and Thus Saith Eve).

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      Deare Sister - Chris Wind

      DEARE SISTER

      chris wind

      * * * * *

      Published by:

      Deare Sister

      Copyright 1991, 2011 by chris wind

      www.chriswind.net

      Cover concept and design by chris wind

      Formatting and layout design by Elizabeth Beeton

      wind, chris

      Deare Sister / chris wind

      ISBN 978-1-926891-07-1

      E-Book Distribution: XinXii

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      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners.

      * * * * *

      also by chris wind

      Thus Saith Eve

      UnMythed

      Soliloquies: The Lady Doth Indeed Protest

      Snow White Gets Her Say

      Satellites Out of Orbit*

      Particivision and other stories

      Paintings and Sculptures

      Excerpts

      dreaming of kaleidoscopes

      Deare Sister is available in print as part of chris wind’s Satellites Out of Orbit (2nd edition), titled Letters.

      * Satellites Out of Orbit contains the four books listed above it as well as this book.

      •

      A performance version of The Portrait (a Mozartean piano score with vocalise to accompany delivery of the text as a monologue) is available from the author (chriswind3@gmail.com).

      * * * * *

      Acknowledgements

      The Experiment Herstoria Summer 2009

      The Ride Canadian Woman Studies Spring 1988, vol.9 no.1

      The Portrait The Antigonish Review Fall/Winter 1986, vol.65

      The Dialogue was performed at Alumnae Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, February 1993.

      An earlier version of Deare Sister appeared as Letters in the first edition of Satellites Out of Orbit.

      Contents

      The Portrait

      The Protest

      The Ride

      The Experiment

      The Patent

      The Model

      The Stone

      The Ring

      The Grapes

      The Dialogue

      APPENDIX

      This is fiction catalyzed by fact. It is not fiction supported by fact. What I mean by that is that the fiction is totally mine—I didn’t conjecture a reasonable fiction based on the facts: although the characters ‘writing’ the letters are real people, in no case did I uncover information implying that such a letter was written; in some cases, the person being written to wasn’t even known by the person writing (this is the case in The Patent—Catherine Greene and Catherine II existed at the same time but that’s it as far as I know); and in other cases, the person being written to doesn’t even exist (I made up Benetta, Properzia’s confidante in The Stone and Gawaina, Godiva’s confidante and sister in The Ride). In fact, I chose women who, for whatever reasons, probably didn’t write such a letter, or any letter, or anything at all for that matter. Or if they did, it hasn’t survived (at least, not in the easily accessible pre-internet mainstream). In this way then, I did not presume to speak for anyone who could and did speak for herself. These pieces are not so much what the characters really would’ve said but what I think they should’ve said. So in light of historical evidence, I may have misrepresented some of the characters. To those who are offended by perceived misrepresentation, my apologies. But since history is, in these cases, scanty, suspect of bias, and sometimes contradictory (see especially the notes for The Dialogue), it’s hard to know the extent of any misrepresentation. These women might’ve said what I want them to have said!

      That said, even though the letters and sometimes the epistolary relationships are fiction, in all cases the event giving rise to the letter and most of the events mentioned therein are real.

      There is an appendix at the end of the book containing brief notes about the women who ‘write’ the letters and the various people mentioned by her, followed by a list of references that I used. This serves to provide background information which sometimes enhances appreciation and might, therefore, be better read before the piece; it also enables readers to realize just what’s fact and what’s fiction.

      * * * * *

      The Portrait

      My dearest Nannerl,

      Of course you have a right to be upset about the portrait. After all, you performed right alongside your brother; in fact, your father had the bills printed to read Two World Wonders. Two, not one. You were with Wolfgang

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