Now in November. Josephine W. Johnson

      

      NOW IN

      NOVEMBER

       Josephine Johnson

       Afterword by Nancy Hoffman

      Published in 1991 by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York

      The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406

      New York, NY 10016

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      Copyright © 1934, 1962 by Josephine Johnson

      Afterword copyright © 1991 by Nancy Hoffman

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or used, stored in any information retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior written permission of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York except in case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Johnson, Josephine Winslow, 1910–1990

       Now in November / by Josephine Winslow Johnson ; afterword by Nancy Hoffman

       p. cm.

       Previously published: New York, Simon & Schuster, 1934.

       I. Title

      PS3519.02633N6 1991

      813′.52—dc20

      90-26975

      eISBN 978-155861-730-8

      This publication is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

       TABLE OF CONTENTS

      1. Cover Page

      2. Title Page

      3. Copyright page

4. Part One: Prelude and Spring

5. Chapter One

6. Chapter Two

7. Chapter Three

8. Chapter Four

9. Chapter Five

10. Chapter Six

11. Chapter Seven

12. Chapter Eight

13. Chapter Nine

      14. Chapter Ten

      15. Chapter Eleven

      16. Chapter Twelve

      17. Chapter Thirteen

      18. Chapter Fourteen

      19. Chapter Fifteen

      20. Chapter Sixteen

      21. Chapter Seventeen

      22. Chapter Eighteen

      23. Part Two: The Long Drouth

      24. Chapter One

      25. Chapter Two

      26. Chapter Three

      27. Chapter Four

      28. Chapter Five

      29. Chapter Six

      30. Chapter Seven

      31. Chapter Eight

      32. Chapter Nine

      33. Chapter Ten

      34. Chapter Eleven

      35. Chapter Twelve

      36. Chapter Thirteen

      37. Chapter Fourteen

      38. Chapter Fifteen

      39. Chapter Sixteen

      40. Chapter Seventeen

      41. Chapter Eighteen

      42. Chapter Nineteen

      43. Part Three: Year’s End

      44. Chapter One

      45. Chapter Two

      46. Chapter Three

      47. Chapter Four

      48. Chapter Five

      49. Chapter Six

      50. Chapter Seven

      51. Afterword

      52. Notes

      53. About the Author

      54. About the Feminist Press

      55. Also Available from the Feminist Press

      Josephine Johnson at the time she wrote Now in November. From the private collection of the family of Josephine Johnson.

      NOW IN

      NOVEMBER

PART ONE PRELUDE AND SPRING

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      NOW in November I can see our years as a whole. This autumn is like both an end and a beginning to our lives, and those days