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...that ill-veiled threat, literature was still largely in the hands not only of men but monks. It was more than four centuries before women in any numbers began to write fiction; but almost as soon as they did, it was clear that writing talent has no gender. Jane Austen is one of the supreme geniuses of the novel, and only a handful of writers have exceeded the accomplishment of George Eliot, the Brontës, Virginia Woolf. For years, though, criticism has been full of daffy generalizations uttered with patriarchal assurance about women as miniaturists, delicate sensibilities, custodians...
...nearly 200 pages this is a long novel for Sagan, but the impression of swiftness that is her signature is as strong as ever. She is as clear and easy to read as Jane Austen, and though Austen was a genius and Sagan is merely talented, they have other things in common. Both evoke a comfortable trust from the reader because they rarely strike a false note, and both tend to decorate their pages with asides and epigrams. Here, for instance, is Gilles noting Nathalie's bookishness: "A well-read woman is less of a nuisance," he decides...
...beginning to come apart at the core. Asher was responsible for the fact that a year later Taylor was able to sign up with Warner Bros, and launch Sweet Baby James. Since James' return to the U.S. in December 1968, for another sojourn in a mental hospital (this time Austen Riggs in Stockbridge, Mass.), Asher, as friend and manager, has proved himself to be a sound guide, with shrewd bargaining abilities and an instinctive feel for the fast-shifting tastes of the pop-music world...
...first thrusts of Nazi power broke up the magic circle; in 1933 Erikson and his Canadian-born wife migrated to the U.S. His studies variously took him to Berkeley, Cambridge and the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Mass. He has spent time in the poor sections of Pittsburgh and on two Indian reservations, where he reflected upon the wisdom of "primitive" child-rearing practices. During World War II he did research assignments for the Government, and afterward worked four years to complete Childhood and Society...
...tremulous nobility"); H.G. Wells with Charles Dickens (as "humorists and visualizers"). Forster in his various aspects could be paired with many in that room. With James, because he had James' grasp of the profound moral and emotional stakes that can change hands in outwardly frivolous situations; with Jane Austen, because he shared her skill at domestic comedy; with D.H. Lawrence, because in his own way he proclaimed the importance of passion...