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Marguerite Bayliss, editor of the Horse Show Blue Book and author of The Matriarchy of the American Turf, has written a period (1820s) first novel that outstrips even such feminine rivals in romantic fantasy as Forever Amber and Green Dolphin Street. The Bolinvars, a story of thoroughbred horses, hounds and men, was first published in 1937 in a limited edition, at $15 a copy. This year's voracious appetite for romance brought its revival as a Ladies' Home Journal serial, and in a trade edition with a $10,000 promotion campaign by Publisher Holt. It reads like...
Storytelling was at a premium in straight novels as well as mysteries. It was the story (plus plenty of sex) that sent lush young Kathleen Winsor's lush Restoration romance, Forever Amber, rocketing to the top of best-seller lists despite the author's mediocre craftsmanship...
...manuscript he recommends. This year his influence has swept over the Sierras with even more spectacular results than usual. Two current bestsellers are books that he plugged before publication. Joseph Pennell's turgid History of Rome Hanks (to date: 93,000 copies), and Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber† (400,000 copies...
...Amber married three others (in due succession), became a rich, widowed Countess. That was her high estate when she met King Charles II. "His dark lazy eyes stirred the embers of desire, at which [her husbands] had rudely raked but never once brought into flame." Charles made Amber a Duchess and Lady of the Bedchamber, had her painted "on a heap of black cushions, unashamedly naked...
...Amber set the Court vogue for mixed nude bathing in the Thames and for low-necked dresses. "Ods-fish, madame," cracked the King, "the greatest display that ever I've seen . . . since I was weaned!" All the best people came to see the Duchess taking her bath in asses' milk, attended by Herman, her Algerian eunuch. "Pray, no ceremony here," Amber would cry, rising from her marble tub: "Herman-fling me a towel...