Happy Birthday to best-selling Jazz Age author Ursula Parrott on what would have been her 127th birthday, although I have no doubt that she would have shaved at least 3-5 years off!!!! 😇

Enjoy the only known moving image footage of Ursula!

#ursulaparrott #bestseller #jazzage #exwife

If you live in #NorthCarolina, you can catch a new take on #UrsulaParrott on Jan 18th at 4pm at St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough. It's my first return to the stage since I last stepped off as Laurie in Oklahoma in 6th Grade. 😅

#BernardCSchoenfeld adapted #UrsulaParrott 's novel #TheresAlwaysTomorrow into the #DouglasSirk directed drama - starring #BarbaraStanwyck, #FredMacMurray, #JoanBennett, #WilliamReynolds, #PatCowley and #GigiPerreau - that's showing at #HOMEmcr as part of the " #TooMuch: #MelodramaOnFilm" season.

Everything you've ever wanted to know about "The Divorcee" (1930) starring Norma Shearer in her Academy Award-winning role but have been afraid to ask 🥰, on the new episode of the "Front Row Classics" #podcast: linktr.ee/FrontRowClas...

#normashearer #thedivorcee #exwife #ursulaparrott

Being on the @infinite-women.com podcast, which reminds us that "well-behaved women rarely make history," was a bright spot in the midst of a dismal time. Thanks for letting me talk about #UrsulaParrott from yet another angle! bit.ly/4nZROik

#podcast #exwife #divorcee #women

*The Great Gatsby | E5: Miss Daisy Drives Herself Lit Talk* · Episode

I thoroughly enjoyed talking abt F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"--espec. the female characters, Gatsby as a romance novel, and as it relates to Ursula Parrott's "Ex-Wife"--on this just-dropped podcast episode.

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#gatsby #fitzgerald #ursulaparrott #1920s

ENCORE: Ursula Parrott: Ex-Wife with Marsha Gordon Podcast Episode · Lost Ladies of Lit · 04/29/2025 · 53m

LISTEN: Member Marsha Gordon (@marshagordon.bsky.social‬) joins the Lost Ladies of Lit podcast to discuss #ursulaparrott:

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Thanks to the Lost Ladies of Lit #Podcast for re-running our episode about #UrsulaParrott as an encore today! Episode streams here: apple.co/4ddpBQt

#bestseller #americanliterature #exwife #divorcee

Ex-Wife – Ursula Parrott
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»Sex and the City« meets »The Great Gatsby« - das vergessene Meisterwerk aus den 1920ern von Ursula Parrott

Patricia ist 24 Jahre alt,
#VergesseneKlassiker #UrsulaParrott #Feminismus #1920erJahre #ExWife #Frauenbild #NewYork
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Pretty cool to get a copy of the brand new Swedish translation of Ursula Parrott’s “Ex-Wife” in the mail! Any #Swedish Blueskyers out there had a chance to read “Ex-Frun” yet?

#ursulaparrott #exwife #exfrun #swedish

HBD today to the best-selling American writer Ursula Parrott, whose 1929 novel #Ex-Wife is now back in print in the US, UK, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands! ♥️

#ursulaparrott #bestseller @mcnallyeditions.com @faberbooks.bsky.social

10 Fascinating Facts About Ursula Parrott, Forgotten Author of Ex-Wife Fascinating facts about Ursula Parrott (1899 – 1957) bestselling author who was best known for her first novel, Ex-Wife (1929).

READ: Member Marsha Gordon (@marshagordon.bsky.social‬) shares ten facts about #ursulaparrott for Literary Ladies Guide:

10 Fascinating Facts About Ursula Parrott, Forgotten Author of Ex-Wife Fascinating facts about Ursula Parrott (1899 – 1957) bestselling author who was best known for her first novel, Ex-Wife (1929).

I shared 10 Fascinating Facts About #UrsulaParrott and here's my 2 faves: 1) Ursula and Her Son Were Carjacked by a Convicted Murder. 2) Some Lost Ursula Parrott Manuscripts
Might be Out There, Somewhere. Read the full list at Literary Ladies Guide:
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The best news I've had this year arrived in the mail today: The Boston Girls' Latin School named #UrsulaParrott their "Outstanding Alumna" of 2024! After decades of forgetting, this best-selling author is being remembered and read again. I stand by my words abt "women's lives and bodies", too.

Now reading! #books #ursulaparrott #newyork

Thanks @amandarafkin.bsky.social for namechecking Ursula Parrott in your explanation of the @academyawards.bsky.social winning Norma Shearer performance in "The Divorcee" (1930). Maybe Ursula will get her own squares one of these days!

#ursulaparrott #thedivorcee #normashearer #crosswords

Want to learn about a woman who was once a best-selling author (20 books, over 100 stories, screenplays) from whose work 10 films were produced (from the Academy Award winning "The Divorcee" to "There's Always Tomorrow")?Hardcover of my #UrsulaParrott bio is BlackFridayed for $18.60! bit.ly/3ZnIRVQ

£1.19 UK Daily Kindle Deal 18th November - an absolute steal for such a remarkable book.

#books #ursulaparrott