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...Nutmeg Tree, Cluny Brown) she has neatly observed the small, telling details of social manners that weightier novelists often pass by. Her special gift is sketching, snippily but without too much malice, the idiosyncratic types that seem still to populate the English countryside as in the days of Jane Austen. (This gift has paid off well; three of her novels have been chosen as monthly selections by the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...essays Virginia Woolf approached writers of the past and present with the same questions in mind. She wrote about Jane Austen's conscience, Defoe's advanced attitude toward women and Sterne's troublesome ghost. She probed the minds of writers as different as Montaigne and Ring Lardner-and brought them all to quickened life; she made them seem contemporaries...
There is an honorable tradition of family novels in English literature, but McCrone is sadly unable to muster any of the gentle, needling satire of Jane Austen or the fierce jaundice of Samuel Butler or the sensitivity to social change of John Galsworthy. Red Plush reads as if it were written by a Moorhouse himself...
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...line Conservatives such stuff was dyed deeper than pink. But the Tory progressives had strong men in their camp. Able Richard Austen Butler, as chairman of the pamphlet-writing group, not only pulled together the suggestions of Eccles and others, but sold The Industrial Charter to Winston Churchill and the Tory "shadow cabinet." It was Butler who expounded the pamphlet's thesis at press conferences. Observers said Butler was the man who deserved most credit for the organizational side of the Tory revival...