Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here Today. Good friend of Authoress Dorothy Parker is her publisher, George Oppenheimer (The Viking Press). Deciding to write a play, Publisher Oppenheimer wondered what would happen if a person whose life is devoted to being brilliant were thrown into a houseful of Boston socialites. His answer is highly amusing to almost everyone but the socialites. Mary Hilliard (Ruth Gordon) is bizarre, witty, peripatetic, alcoholic. When they get drunk she and her friend Stanley Dale (Charles D. Brown) go travelling. Once they went to Siam. This time they go to Nassau, where Mary Hilliard's one-time husband, Philip...
Kiplingites will remember with a pleased grin, anti-Kiplingites with a shudder, that very Kiplingesque creature "Mrs. Hauksbee," the hardbitten, hard-headed Anglo-Indian army wife in Plain Tales from the Hills who knew what was what, was fond of uttering scraps of omniscience in scriptural Kiplingo. In English Authoress Ann Bridge's heroine, Mrs. LeRoy, Kipling readers will recognize a perfect re-edition of Mrs. Hauksbee. Mrs. LeRoy, empire-building wife of an oriental expert, has to live at the British Legation at Peking while her children are at school in England. Time: the unpleasant present...
...more English novel?in the Kipling, sun-never-sets-on-it sense ? than Peking Picnic would be hard to imagine. Authoress Bridge puts her not always tacit low opinion of all foreigners in a sufficiently high light, repeats with religious fervor the Kipling creed of England über alles. Broad-minded if not exactly up-to-date, the judges of the $10,000 Atlantic Monthly Prize unanimously picked Peking Picnic out of 750 manuscripts submitted for the contest...
...novel about six generations in a North of England cloth manufacturing family needs a strong theme to hold it together. Authoress Bentley's theme is the old one about how machines, as they are gradually installed at Syke Mill, drive a painful wedge between employer and employes. The Oldroyds own Syke Mill. The first Oldroyd is murdered by his workmen in 1812 for setting up weaving frames. His son Will marries the sister of one of the murderers. Will's legitimate son Brigg and his bastard son Jonathan quarrel over workers' rights. Brigg marries the daughter of a foreman. Their...
...What the South needs now is?blood and irony." Plump, lively, slightly deaf, she finds life agreeable and amusing. Though she thought she could die of happiness if her first book was accepted, after her 17th was published she remarked: "I've never been happy and have not died." Authoress Glasgow lives in an old house in the heart of Richmond at No. i West Main Street, entertains there her friends James Branch Cabell, Mary Johnston, Joseph Hergesheimer, Hugh Walpole. She has never married...