Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer"A brilliant collection. Ms. Fraser does the greatest honor a writer can do people: she brings them alive". The New York Times Book ReviewKennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of observation, and offhand elegance that made her fashion reportage for The New Yorker so legendary. In Ornament and Silence, Fraser writes about women as independent luminaries and supporting players in the lives