Escapes: 1880s-1916 -- Reality Raised: 1917-1924 -- Magnetic Personality: 1925-1929 -- Revolutionary and Mother: 1930-1933 -- Early Genius: 1934 -- Great Feminine Hope: 1935-1936 -- Dead and Resuscitated Hope: 1937-1939 -- War-Relief Hero: 1940-1945 -- Ex-GIs Ideal Wife: 1964-1950 -- Victim and Remaker: 1951-1955 -- Great Value as a Writer: 1956-1961 -- Ego Strength: 1962-1969 -- Tillie Appleseed: 1970-1974 -- Queen Bee: 1975-1980 -- Image Control: 1981-1996 -- Enter Biographer: 1997-2007 -- Appendix A: Bibliography of Primary Works by Tillie Lerner Olsen -- Appendix B: Family Tree of Olsen, Lerner, Goldberg, and Goldfarb Families -- Appendix C: 1935 Plan for the 1930s Proletarian Novel