Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
year: 1999, 1976, 1970, 1987, 2000, 1998, 1945, 1988
call number/section: 1000, 812, 812.52, 812.54, 813.54
subjects: young men, saint louis, drama, family, saint louis (mo.), family life, saint louis (mo.), drama, williams, tennessee, american drama, mothers and daughters, physically handicapped, people with disabilities, mother-daughter relationship, compact discs, american plays, families
Editions
Williams, Tennessee
New Directions (1999)
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
Schools: 23
Williams, Tennessee
Dramatists Play Service (1976)
Schools: 1
Williams, Tennessee
New Directions (1970)
A play about a Southern woman who is anxious for her physically handicapped daughter to be married.
Schools: 1
Williams, Tennessee
Signet (1987)
A play about a Southern woman who is anxious for her physically handicapped daughter to be married.
Schools: 2
Williams, Tennessee
Caedmon (2000)
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
Schools: 2
Williams, Tennessee
Greenhaven Press (1998)
Schools: 0
Williams, Tennessee
Signet (1945)
Schools: 0
Bloom, Harold (ed.)
Chelsea House (1988)
Schools: 0
Williams, Tennessee
A play about a Southern woman who is anxious for her crippled daughter to be married.
Schools: 2
Moriarty, Michael
Drama of an overbearing mother who attempts to impose her shattered dreams as a southern belle onto the life of her reclusive daughter.
Schools: 0
Bloom, Harold (ed.)
Chelsea House (1988)
Schools: 1
Williams, Tennessee
A tender, despairing portrait of two women, one lost in the past, the other in herself.
Schools: 1
Moriarty, Michael
Drama of an overbearing mother who attempts to impose her shattered dreams as a southern belle onto the life of her reclusive daughter.
Schools: 1