Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider yourself intelligent and yet are a little ashamed of reading detective-stories, you may take courage from reflecting on the case of Authoress Dorothy Savers. One of the first women to take an Oxford degree (first-class honors in Medieval Literature), she was considered one of the most brilliant scholars of her year. Now a noted detective-story author & editor (The Omnibus of Crime), her favorite recreation is reading other people's detective stories. Withal, she is married (to Capt. Atherton Fleming), has shingled hair, a merry countenance...
Engaged. Richard Washburn Child, author (Jim Hands, A Diplomat Looks at Europe), onetime (1921-24) U. S. Ambassador to Italy; and Mrs. Dorothy Gallagher Everson, manager of his Newport home. Divorced by Mrs. Elizabeth Scott Child in 1916, he married Authoress Maude Parker, was divorced by her in 1926; in 1927 he married his literary secretary, Miss Eva Sanderson, who divorced him last year...
...Bloomsbury group that includes her good friends Virginia Woolf. Lytton Strachey, E. M. 1-orster. John Maynard Keynes. Knole Castle, her birthplace and the home of her ancestors, is one of the most celebrated houses in England, has 365 rooms, more years than (hat. When she is in England. Authoress Sackville-West lives with her husband and two sons at "Seven-oaks," near Knole Castle, but she is a lady of other worlds as well, likes traveling with her husband in Ecuador, Persia, any out-of-the-way place. She has also written: Twelve Days, The Land (Hawthornden Prize Poem...
Pigeon-holers used to put Ruth Suckow into the compartment marked "Dreary Middle West, small-town." Pigeon-holers were wrong. Authoress Suckow is not one of those documentary writers who cannot see the people for the buildings. She has more than a hint of that knack Katherine Mansfield had, which many a Russian writer has, of holding a simplifying lens up to human nature. In this book of 14 short stories about Children and Older People you have the almost constant feeling that you are seeing people as they...
...Authoress Vicki Baum, whose dramatized Grand Hotel has made a hit on Broadway, tells a light-heartedly lubricous tale of an Adonisian swimming instructor and the damage he did at a German summer resort. Martin was a serious-minded young man (he had invented a paper substitute for cinema film) who found himself temporarily out of a job and turned his hobby into a cab-horse. But he was beautiful as the day, and women of all girths and dimensions flocked to his instruction. Martin was kindhearted, with a good digestion and an equable temper; but before the summer...