Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exclusively to the rise and dedevelopment of a middle-aged love affair, sans fireworks or asterisks, between a retired Indian administrator and a gentle and genteel widow, may seem to those who prefer excitement in their reading a little too placid. A safe book to give an old-fashioned aunt...
...story is built up about Abigail Vane, reared under the stiff tutelage of her aunt, Clemency Vane, and the loving devotion of her wealthy grandfather, Michael Hare. In her teens she is occupied with nothing but her social career, but the war brings a sudden change and Abigail, like "a true Vane", goes to Europe as a canteen worker. After the armistice she meets in a convalescent hospital her old lover who is now married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone...
...public with at least two of her books, Mother and the recent Certain People of Importance. This tall, aquiline-featured, dominant woman is of literary family. Her husband, a brother of Frank Norris, is Charles Norris, whose Salt and Brass are both American novels of worth, and she is aunt to the children of William Rose Benet, the poet. Her life has been a varied one, and it shows in her keen understanding of women's hearts and minds, and in her unfailing observation of detail. About to be a debutante in San Francisco, the death of her father...
...cast of "The First Day" is as follows: Mrs. Mathieson, Miss Lillian Hartigan Aunt Anne, Mrs. E. B. Field Jr. Mary Johnston, Miss Agnes James Miss Mina (Mrs. Norton), Miss Dorothy Kuhns Mr. Morton, Tom Loudon
...Frances N. Hall, widow of the late New Brunswick rector: "I received an estate of $76,000 from my late aunt, Mrs. Lucy W. Hart. I am still in Europe...