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'''For the Sake of Grace''' is a 1969 short story by [[Suzette Haden Elgin]].
'''For the Sake of Grace''' is a 1969 short story by [[Suzette Haden Elgin]].
"For the Sake of Grace" depicts a patriarchal world in which women are virtually barred from higher learning. A young girl, in defiance of the example set by her aunt (condemned to live in solitude for attempting to take the poetry exam), desires to also take the exam.
==Intertextuality==
* "[[The Two of Them]]" by [[Joanna Russ]] took the characters and settings from Elgin's short story "[[For the Sake of Grace]]".


==Publications==
==Publications==
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* ''Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #2: The Science Fictional Olympics'', ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Signet 1984)
* ''Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #2: The Science Fictional Olympics'', ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Signet 1984)
* ''[[The Norton Book of Science Fiction]]'', ed. [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] and [[Brian Attebery]], Norton 1993
* ''[[The Norton Book of Science Fiction]]'', ed. [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] and [[Brian Attebery]], Norton 1993


[[Category:1969 publications]]
[[Category:1969 publications]]
[[Category:Short stories]]
[[Category:Short stories]]

Revision as of 14:12, 22 March 2007

For the Sake of Grace is a 1969 short story by Suzette Haden Elgin.

"For the Sake of Grace" depicts a patriarchal world in which women are virtually barred from higher learning. A young girl, in defiance of the example set by her aunt (condemned to live in solitude for attempting to take the poetry exam), desires to also take the exam.

Intertextuality


Publications