Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third, Painter Maurice Sterne. Born into Buffalo society, she has always had the money, friends and inclination to shift her sphere of influence where she would. As readers of her first book, Lorenzo in Taos, may remember, her influence has not always been appreciated; but that time, Authoress Luhan implies, Greek (D. H. Lawrence) met Greek (herself). Long at work on her Intimate Memories, she has now published the first volume, which tells all about her first 18 years...
Unlike Proust's, Authoress Luhan's diving memory fails to bring up pearls; but it is not for lack of trying, and she is sure they are there. Her natural sympathy with people, she says, "has caused me many inward conflicts, and it has always drawn people to me in the same degree that I flowed out to them and identified myself with them, and it has always made people want to kiss me, to manifest an actual nearness and union, finding it comforting and consolatory. It is the only genius I have ever...
Readers who liked John Collier's His Monkey Wife, David Garnett's Lady into Fox, or Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue might each find something to his liking in Authoress Trevelyan's Appius & Virginia. Those who have watched babies in the nursery or monkeys in the zoo with mixed but fascinated feelings may also find it reminiscent...
Most clever novelists are content if they can make their stupid characters appear dunces, but clever Authoress Bowen has gone a step further and made fools of her clever people. A long step in advance of The Hotel (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929), To the North is written with the same unblinking observation that may seem to some readers heartless but is so devoid of comment that it cannot be called cynical...
...writing on the side. After three years of it she went back to Portage in 1904, settled down to write. When she married, about five years ago, she took a Portage man, William Llywelyn Breese, banker-manufacturer. The U. S. is conscious of her chiefly as authoress of some twenty-odd books, of which Miss Lulu Bett is most famed (her dramatization of it won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize). Wisconsin knows her as a liberal in education (onetime regent of its University, her alma mater), as a progressive in politics (she took the stump in 1924 for the last "Fighting...