Morning glory : a biography of Mary Lou Williams / by Dahl, Linda, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…My mama pinned a rose on me : 1910-1916 -- The little piano girl of East Liberty : 1915-1924 -- Hits 'n bits : 1924-1929 -- Nite life : 1929-1931 -- Walkin' and swingin' : 1931-1935 -- Silk stockings : 1936-1941 -- Why go on pretending? : 1941-1942 -- Trumpets no end : 1942-1943 -- Café Society blues : 1943-1946 -- The zodiac suite : 1945-1946 -- Kool : 1944-1947 -- Benny's bop : 1948 -- Walkin' out the door : 1948-1952 -- Chez Mary Lou : 1952-1954 -- Praying through my fingertips : 1955-1962 -- Black Christ of the Andes : 1962-1968 -- Zoning : 1968-1977 -- Artist-in-residence : 1977-1981 -- The Mary Lou Williams Foundation.…”

The haves and have-nots : 30 stories about money and class in America /

Table of Contents: “…Powers -- Over the hill / Kate Braverman -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- I stand her ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Kiswana Browne / Gloria Naylor.…”

The Letters of Cole Porter / by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964

Table of Contents: “…From Peru, Indiana, to Broadway, 1891-1919 -- Cole Porter in Europe, 1918-1928 -- Porter's return to the United States, 1928-1937 -- Settled -- and injured -- in New York, 1937-1944 -- A Porter biopic and two flops, 1945-1947 -- Kiss me, Kate, 1948 -- From Kiss me, Kate to Out of this world, 1949-1950 -- From limbo to the writing of Can-can, 1951-1952 -- Two last Broadway hits, Can-can and Silk stockings, 1953-1954 -- Porter's last musicals, 1955-1957 -- The final years, 1958-1964.…”
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Rediscoveries : American short stories by women, 1832-1916 /

Table of Contents: “…The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- Madame Célestin's divorce / Kate Chopin -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin -- The pelican / Edith Wharton -- The other two / Edith Wharton -- Xingu / Edith Wharton -- The soft-hearted Sioux / Zitkala-S̈a (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) -- Its wavering image / Sui Sin Far -- Hope deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson.…”

The racial imaginary of the Cold War kitchen : from Sokolʹniki Park to Chicago's South Side / by Baldwin, Kate A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Cold War, hot kitchen -- Envy and other warm guns : Ray and Charles Eames at the American National Exhibition in Moscow -- Reframing the Cold War kitchen : Sylvia Plath, Byt, and the radical imaginary of The bell jar -- Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya, and the conditions of Cold War womanhood -- Lorraine Hansberry and the social life of emotions -- Selling the homeland : Silk Stockings, stilyagi, and style -- Epilogue: A kitchen in history.…”
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Petticoats and frock coats : revolution and Victorian - Age fashions from the 1770s to the 1860s / by Bix, Cynthia Overbeck

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Eli's Story : a Twentieth-Century Jewish Life. by Rochelson, Meri-Jane

Table of Contents: “…War and Efforts to Escape; 4. "Silk Stockings": The Holocaust Reaches Kovno; 5. Kovno Ghetto; 6. …”
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The Letters of Cole Porter / by Porter, Cole, 1891-1964

Table of Contents: “…From Peru, Indiana, to Broadway, 1891-1919 -- Cole Porter in Europe, 1918-1928 -- Porter's return to the United States, 1928-1937 -- Settled -- and injured -- in New York, 1937-1944 -- A Porter biopic and two flops, 1945-1947 -- Kiss me, Kate, 1948 -- From Kiss me, Kate to Out of this world, 1949-1950 -- From limbo to the writing of Can-can, 1951-1952 -- Two last Broadway hits, Can-can and Silk stockings, 1953-1954 -- Porter's last musicals, 1955-1957 -- The final years, 1958-1964.…”
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World War I and urban order : the local class politics of national mobilization / by Hodges, Adam J.

Table of Contents: “…Internment and Urban Moral Order: Enemy Aliens and "Silk Stocking Girls."…”
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Declaring his genius : Oscar Wilde in North America / by Morris, Roy, Jr

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