Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAUNTED MIRROR - Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). Of the South that William Faulkner writes about, it has been said that no one else has ever seen it. The same comment could be made on Authoress Roberts' Kentucky. Her Kentuckians, their ways of speaking and their goings-on, are as much a sublimation of actual Kentucky as the late John Millington Synge's Aran Islanders were of the Irish. This collection of seven short stories (of which only three have not before been published) will help fence in more securely her well-established claim to her Kentucky cloudland. Readers...
...Second Common Reader, a sequel to her first collection of critical essays, will appeal more to library-haunters than to débutantes, though anybody who likes good writing might enjoy them. In 26 brief, graceful, revealing essays Authoress Woolf conducts you on a tour of the minor masterpieces of English literature and their makers-from the great late Elizabethans to the late great Thomas Hardy. In her concluding paper ("How Should One Read a Book?") she drops a cogent hint to readers of whatever kind: "Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction...
...writers have been so infallible as Rosamond Lehmann. Dusty Answer (1927) might have been a lucky strike; A Note in Music showed it was not. In Invitation to the Waltz Authoress Lehmann, with sure and delicate touch, tells a tale of vernal English virginity. Olivia and Kate were sisters, both pretty, but different. Kate was neat, chic, determined; Olivia dowdy and diffuse. Both were beside themselves with breathless ambition at the prospect of Lady Spencer's dance-Olivia's first. Their hard-put-to-it mother had relaxed so far as to let them invite a young Oxonian...
...Authoress Lehmann, wise economist of effects, never gives you too much of anything, of some of her characters lets you have tantalizing glimpses that are not half enough. What she lets you see of young brother James, a glowering but attractive rebel, would make any reader call for more. In the silence of his crib James was given to versifying his wrongs. One scorcher...
...books may be pleased to know that Rosamond Lehmann has U. S. blood, comes from the same family as Playwright Owen Davis. Her father, the late Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, was on Punch's editorial staff, was better known as one of England's mightiest oars. Aged 31, Authoress Lehmann is married to Arlist Wogan Phillips, nephew of towering Lord Kylsant who spent the past year in jail for malfeasance in connection with the affairs of the Royal Mail Line (TIME, Aug. 12, 1931 et seq.). Like Infant James she lisped in numbers, still prefers verse to prose...