Victoria Ocampo: Against the Wind and the Tide

* Preface * Chapter One: Embarking on a Sweet Sea * The Ocampos and the Aguirres * An Intersection in the Gran Aldea * The Early Years * Childhood and Schooling * Chapter Two: Charting the Course * Books and Heroes * Dreams and Frustrations * Letters to Delfina * A Gilded Cage * An Error and Its Penalty * Art for Life's Sake * Chapter Three: Widening Horizons * Jose Ortega y Gasset * Rabindranath Tagore * Count Hermann Keyserling * Chapter Four: Barriers and Bridges * A Clearer Vision * Rediscovering Europe * A Soul Without a Passport * Sur * Virginia Woolf and Gilded Butterflies * Chapter Five: The Eye of the Storm * The Beginnings of Argentine Feminism * The Argentine Women's Union * Prelude to Peron * Feminism and the Peron Regime * A Victim of the Regime * Gabriela Mistral and Freedom * A Postscript * Chapter Six: Chronicles of an Adventurer * Literature as Testimony * Writing Like a Woman * A Woman's Mission * The Symmetry of the Spirit * Photographs * A Selection of Essays by Victoria Ocampo, translated by Doris Meyer * Sarmiento's Gift * Fani * A King Passes By * Maria de Maeztu * Living History * Adrienne Monnier * Woman, Her Rights and Her Responsibilities * Virginia Woolf in My Memory * The Forest * Gabriela Mistral and the Nobel Prize * The Man With the Whip * Albert Camus * Heroes With and Without Space Suits * The Last Year of Pachacutec * Women in the Academy * Chapter Notes * Essay Notes * Selected Bibliography * Index