Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some highly pictorial spaces left comparatively blank. One such space, crammed with history not adequately fictionalized, is the period after Queen Elizabeth's death, when religious malcontents fled England for Holland, cleared out from there for a newer, presumably better world. Pilgrim Fathers & Mothers are the heroes & heroines of Authoress Carlisle's book. In We Begin she paints, with meticulous nicety of detail, an historical mural of extraordinary scope. Following muralist technique, she manages to make her characters striking but not too personal, her details vivid but not too bright. Only a theatrical ending tarnishes her brilliant scenario...
...ways. Eleazar was a religious bigot who loved Anne in order to save her soul, John a happy farmer who loved the earth and all its foison. Anne chose John, sending away Eleazar half mad with sanctity and lust. The brothers' contradictory natures clash throughout the story, symbolize for Authoress Carlisle contrary traits in Pilgrim Father psychology...
...bonded to the speculative Merchant Adventurers, they are furnished transportation. With their embarkation on the Mayflower the story enters more familiar ground. But the actualities of the trip, the landing at Plymouth, the first buildings, the first plantings, the first Indians and their strange ways, all are materialized by Authoress Carlisle in fascinating detail. Meanwhile the struggle between John Dexter and Eleazar takes an unexpected turn. Hopeless of his brother's wife, Eleazar transfers his unholy zeal to an orphan, Purity, whom Anne has adopted on the Mayflower. His passion, countering the similar passion of John's son, David...
With William Morris' not notoriously intelligible verses Authoress Mannin captions the three sections of her novel, symbolizes the three phases of her heroine's career?summery childhood, cryptic girlhood, mystic womanhood. Linda's simple story, the details of her family's life on Shawn's farm, make a pretty picture to hang on a cottage wall. Three generations back the Shawns had come from Ireland, rented a piece of land near Flaydering, near the North Sea. Andrew, Linda's father, runs the farm as well as his Celtic irresponsibility allows. His wife Ellen, once a schoolmarm...
...Author. Brought up in a strict orthodoxy that disapproved of literature as a career, Authoress Mannin (born 1900) started writing young. Married at 19, she has one daughter, is now separated from her husband. She believes she is the only English authoress who both keeps house and pursues her literary career with out family or marital support. Interested in child psychology, education, Communism, she is a member of the Inde pendent Labor Party, writes regularly for I. L. P.'s New Leader. Books: Pilgrims, Confessions & Impressions, Hunger of the Sea, Sounding Brass, Ragged Banners, Common-sense and the Child...