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
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
4. Part One: Prelude and Spring
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
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