Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recorded a more mildly poignant life pattern than that of Charles Lamb, who, himself not precisely a tower of strength, had yet to bear the burden of his own peccadillos with the tragic fact of his adored sister. While unfolding the subdued drama of this luckless pair the authoress availed herself of the abundant material for the creation of a literary atmosphere, and for the most part achieved a satisfying degree of success, leaving only to be desired a more penetrating (although not lengthier) portrayal of S. T. Coleridge, or at least an intimation of the quality of this poet...
...civilization puts a high value on specialized knowledge; but to get full value for inside information you must take it to the right market. Authoress Brokaw knows her Manhattan society. She was born, married, divorced in it. But novel readers are not so interested in dowager-&-debutante doings as are society editors orf social secretaries...
...succession of satirical sketches Authoress Brokaw parades a long line of gilded caricatures: Social Arbitress Mrs. Townley, her chief rival Mrs. Topping, climbing Mrs. Crumb, many another socialite host & parasite. All of them dislike one another, exert themselves to the utmost to do one another down. Though Stuffed Shirts is not a continued story, the same stuffed shirts reappear from time to time, and if you are curious about their relationship a genealogical table at the end will make all clear. If you are a constant reader of the society page you may have some fun adventuring among Authoress Brokaw...
...full of a mannered dignity, a compound of books and Kentucky dialect. Before she settled down to be an important U. S. novelist she wrote a book of poems, Under the Tree, which won the Fiske Prize. When the Literary Guild chose A Buried Treasure for its November book Authoress Roberts hung up a figurative trophy: she was the first authoress (or author) to have three novels chosen by a book club. The others: The Time of Man (Book of the Month, October 1926); The Great Meadow (Literary Guild, March...
...people really talked the way Authoress Roberts' country characters do, they would either be hired for an antique chorus or put in an asylum. No gramophonic realist but an artist who digs for buried treasure, Authoress Roberts makes her Kentucky farmers' speech into the kind of lyricized dialect which the late John Millington Synge dug for and found among his Aran Islanders...