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According to the publishers of "Mad Hatter's Village," by Mary Cavendish Gore, the authoress' first published novel, she were out three different typewriters composing twelve earlier ones. Different publishers asked Miss Gore, or sometimes the pseudonymous persons she pretended to be, to revise five of these novels but she spurned such requests. However, she completely rewrote "Mad Hatter's Village" which was a conversation in its original form...
...hysterical propaganda. With no statistical tables. no sociological jargon, not even a photograph (except on the jacket), I Went to Pit College paints an authentic, unforgettable picture. To have taken a postgraduate course at "Pit College" is no mean feat in itself; on the strength of her masterly thesis Authoress Gilfillan has graduated magna cum laude. The mining town she picked, more or less at random, was a huddle of shacks she calls "Avelonia," about 35 miles from Pittsburgh. Under cover of darkness she arrived in a hired car, knocked at a house that looked less dilapidated than most...
...became known that she was a writer, Authoress Gilfillan's popularity waned. Communist organizers accused her of being a capitalist spy. Police thought she was a Communist. Old friends stopped speaking to her. One day at a mass meeting she was publicly ostracized. Only people who would talk to her were an old drunk and the faithful Johnny, who was expelled from the Young Communist League for being in cahoots with her. At the end she had to tell Johnny that he could not go with her. He took it like...
...girl organizer gave of her: "You have a baby face and pert manners. . . . You think you're an artist. . . . You're the kind of person I want to see killed!" Born 24 years ago in the slums of Washington, D. C., where her parents were social workers, Authoress Gilfillan has always had a "penchant for 'bums.' " By the time she was 14 she had run away from home twice to see the world. At 17, her parents not concurring, she got a job in a corset factory, was discharged for inefficiency...
...Property" she takes as symbols of certain prime, moving ideas: "The Will to Property," "Beauty, impinging on a possessive world," and "the eternal force of Passion." The tragic clash of these three, in its grimness and covert intensity, is compared to Greek tragedy. How cleverly the authoress has argued her parallel may be seen by this sentence: "An instinctive dread, a premonition of danger, seizes the Chorus (the lesser Forsytes) even before the appearance of this strange and unsafe creature (Bosinney). It is perhaps straining a point for the sake of consistency to carry over this symbolical hierarchy into...