Letter from Laura (Riding) Jackson to The Editor of The New York Times Book Review, 1968-10-18

"Mr. William Meredith, in his review of The Blue Estuaries by Louise Bogan in your issue of October 13th, posits "an ambivalent prejudice that a woman artist must face", and then describes Miss Bogan as having got along very well by, simply, disdaining the challenge of the prejudice and declaring herself to be a human being, of good endowments. The posited prejudice is, according to Mr. Meredith, a 'culture' that limits the woman artist to being either "a poetess or a goddess, a little lady poet or a great-breasted, all-knowing mother"."