Lesbian and feminist novelist and publisher June Fairfax Davis gave voice to complicated characters who previously had no voice in literature. Like many women
of her generation and class, Arnold was married soon after graduation to her classmate Gilbert Harrington Arnold and quickly had five children. Her marriage failed in the 1950s, and she moved with her children to Greenwich Village in New York. There she established her feminist as well as lesbian identity. Her first novel, Applesauce (1966), dealt in part with her marriage and her difficulty in fulfilling the traditional roles expected of a woman, wife, and mother. In Greenwich Village, Arnold also began a relationship with Parke Bowman, a lawyer who became her long-time partner. Bowman and Arnold moved to Vermont, where, with novelist Bertha Harris and political theorist Charlotte Bunch, they founded Daughters Inc., Press in 1973. In 1978, after Daughters, Inc. declared bankruptcy, Arnold returned with Bowman to her childhood environs to write Baby Houston (1987), a book about her hometown and her mother. Baby Houston was published five years after Arnold's premature death from cancer at the age of 55.
of her generation and class, Arnold was married soon after graduation to her classmate Gilbert Harrington Arnold and quickly had five children. Her marriage failed in the 1950s, and she moved with her children to Greenwich Village in New York. There she established her feminist as well as lesbian identity. Her first novel, Applesauce (1966), dealt in part with her marriage and her difficulty in fulfilling the traditional roles expected of a woman, wife, and mother. In Greenwich Village, Arnold also began a relationship with Parke Bowman, a lawyer who became her long-time partner. Bowman and Arnold moved to Vermont, where, with novelist Bertha Harris and political theorist Charlotte Bunch, they founded Daughters Inc., Press in 1973. In 1978, after Daughters, Inc. declared bankruptcy, Arnold returned with Bowman to her childhood environs to write Baby Houston (1987), a book about her hometown and her mother. Baby Houston was published five years after Arnold's premature death from cancer at the age of 55.
Lesbian and feminist novelist and publisher June Fairfax Davis gave voice to complicated characters who previously had no voice in literature. Like many women
of her generation and class, Arnold was married soon after graduation to her classmate Gilbert Harrington Arnold and quickly had five children. Her marriage failed in the 1950s, and she moved with her children to Greenwich Village in New York. There she established her feminist as well as lesbian identity. Her first novel, Applesauce (1966), dealt in part with her marriage and her difficulty in fulfilling the traditional roles expected of a woman, wife, and mother. In Greenwich Village, Arnold also began a relationship with Parke Bowman, a lawyer who became her long-time partner. Bowman and Arnold moved to Vermont, where, with novelist Bertha Harris and political theorist Charlotte Bunch, they founded Daughters Inc., Press in 1973. In 1978, after Daughters, Inc. declared bankruptcy, Arnold returned with Bowman to her childhood environs to write Baby Houston (1987), a book about her hometown and her mother. Baby Houston was published five years after Arnold's premature death from cancer at the age of 55.
of her generation and class, Arnold was married soon after graduation to her classmate Gilbert Harrington Arnold and quickly had five children. Her marriage failed in the 1950s, and she moved with her children to Greenwich Village in New York. There she established her feminist as well as lesbian identity. Her first novel, Applesauce (1966), dealt in part with her marriage and her difficulty in fulfilling the traditional roles expected of a woman, wife, and mother. In Greenwich Village, Arnold also began a relationship with Parke Bowman, a lawyer who became her long-time partner. Bowman and Arnold moved to Vermont, where, with novelist Bertha Harris and political theorist Charlotte Bunch, they founded Daughters Inc., Press in 1973. In 1978, after Daughters, Inc. declared bankruptcy, Arnold returned with Bowman to her childhood environs to write Baby Houston (1987), a book about her hometown and her mother. Baby Houston was published five years after Arnold's premature death from cancer at the age of 55.
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