Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BOXFIRE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace (§2.50). Like many another champion of sweetness & light. Authoress Canfield cannot refrain from hitting her strawman adversary below the belt. In Bonfire her enthusiasm leads her into such palpable fouls that even her partisans may well shake their heads, deprecating these groin punches that mar an otherwise pretty exhibition of sparring. Anna Craft was district nurse in a little Vermont community where everyone knew everything about every one else. Anna was a realist but she had too many ideals for her own comfort. Chief ideal was her younger brother Anson, for whom...
...deaf-mute who has become a highly educated and intelligent woman, is one of the most famed figures in the world today, but few have ever heard of the miracle-worker who raised Helen Keller from the worse-than-dead. Her name is Anne Sullivan Macy; in this book Authoress Braddy tells her little-known story. Mrs. Macy has lived continuously with Helen Keller for 45 years except for two occasions. Fourteen years older than her lifelong pupil, she was well fitted to be a sympathetic teacher of the blind. She was practically blinded herself in childhood by trachoma...
...ELISABETH-Sigrid Undset-Knopf ($2.50). Story of modern marriage guaranteed complete in one volume, by the prolific authoress of Kristin Lavransdatter...
...LAMPS OF CHINA-Alice Tisdale Hobart-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Novel of Americans in China, by an authoress who supposedly knows both...
...HEAD-Margaret Fishback -Button ($2). More light verse by the lightly versatile authoress of I Feel Better...