Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Someone must have been kidding Authoress Celarié if she tells this as a true story, else some Marocaine, a devotee of Boccaccio, called on her knowledge of his works to pull herself out of a nasty...
...Jane Addams, "greatest among modern women"; Theosophist Annie Besant; Catherine Breshkovsky, "Grandmother of the Russian Revolution"; Scientist Mme Marie Curie; Anarchist Emma Goldman; Helen Keller, "most perfectly triumphant of women"; Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay; Mme Sarojini Naidu, "first among Indian women"; Margaret Sanger, "indomitable advocate of birth control"; Authoress Sigrid Undset...
Federal Judge John M. Woolsey put an end to the $2,250,000 suit for plagiarism brought by Authoress Gladys Adelina Selma Lewis ("Georges Lewys") against Playwright Eugene O'Neill, his pub lishers and the Theatre Guild. Miss Lewis had charged that in O'Neill's Strange In terlude the motif of "selective parent hood" was stolen from her privately printed book The Temple of Pallas-Athenae, which pictured a temple in Paris at which perfect young males are - in Judge Woolsey's words - "kept at stud as professional fathers." Playwright O'Neill...
...valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House of Lords, imprisoned for three months. Later he was pardoned and reinstated through the aid of the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith. When his second wife divorced him he married Elizabeth Mary Countess Arnim, anonymous authoress (Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Enchanted April...
...lived so long in China that she ought to know whereof she writes, but The Good Earth, except for minor details, might have been laid in the U. S., in any agricultural country. This may mean that men are the same everywhere; it may mean a U. S. authoress cannot (even imaginatively) go native in China...