Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birth of a child." The time between is filled with his usual rounds: n visits, a mastoid operation. Wherever he goes he sees people he knows as none of their fellow-townspeople can know them, for 40 years he has heard their troubles, patched them up, prescribed for them. Authoress Ashton's method is ingenious, effective; though most of the "action" is reminiscence, seen through the doctor's thoughts, it covers a long time, many people...
...first novel. Far Enough, was also based on her medical experience. Handsome, dark, young, she lives in London with her husband. Said he one day: it would be impossible to write a whole book, and make it interesting, about one day in the life of a country doctor. Authoress Ashton fooled him. She wrote most of Dr. Serocold on fishing trips in Ireland, scribbling in little notebooks in a microscopic hand which the rain helped make illegible to anyone else. She has also written three children's books...
...motor accident in France three years ago made Margaret Ayer Barnes an author: in bed for months, she wrote to give herself something to do. Chicago socialite, sister of Novelist Janet Fairbank. Authoress Barnes was formerly a director of Bryn Mawr College. Her short stories have been published under the title Prevailing Winds. Years of Grace is her first novel...
...Authoress Marthe Bibesco, not to be confused with her cousin. Princess Antoine Bibesco (nee Elizabeth, daughter of Margot Asquith), was born in Rumania, daughter of Jean Lahovary, onetime Rumanian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was educated in France. At 16 she married Prince Bibesco, head of the Bibesco family, accompanied him to Persia on a diplomatic mission. Like others of the Rumanian nobility, most notably Queen Marie, the Bibescoes will turn an adulant dollar out of democratic pockets. Princess Bibesco's first book, the Eight Paradises, written when she was 18, was crowned by the French Academy. Other...
...Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News. It was on the tabloid News that Daughter Alicia worked in 1927 as a $30-a-week sobsister, was once thrown downstairs by an irate Hoboken housewife whom she sought to interview on henpecking. To other Chicago £nd Manhattan social ites the authoress is Mrs. Simpson. James Simpson Jr., whom she married in 1927 and from whom she now lives apart (in Manhattan), is son of the board chairman of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. But to the publishing world she is sec ond principal in a Father-&-Daughter saga unique...