Word: authoresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Robert Louis Stevenson, suave preceptor, warned youths & maidens against taking a literary mate. Like a frenetic footnote to that polished advice comes Grace Hegger Lewis's case-history, Half A Loaf. Divorced from her famed husband Sinclair Lewis six years ago, Authoress Lewis has spent part of the interim preparing to heave her stone, which hits more birds than perhaps she meant...
...proper is written entirely in direct discourse which is really soliloquy, shading sometimes into a kind of ghostly dialog. Except for the inevitable "said Bernard" 's and "said Louis" 's there is not a word in it outside quotation marks. This may sound like boring reading, but Authoress Woolf knows her job: it is not boring. Into her soliloquies she has put everything you need to know about the characters; as you get used to this artfully artificial method you cease to notice its strangeness...
...children, three boys and three girls, apparently not related (Authoress Woolf never makes this clear), live in a house on the coast. They are all about the same age, all do the same lessons together under the severe eye of the governess. They go away to school, for the first time the boys & girls separate. But now you begin to recognize them as individuals. Bernard is happy-go-lucky, lovable; Louis is cold, snobbish, ashamed of his Australian accent; Neville is shyly passionate. Jinny is an attractive little animal; Susan fierce, proud; Rhoda is ungainly, helpless, doomed to hopelessness. After...
Died. Mrs. Annie 'Fellows Johnston, 68, authoress, after long illness; at Pewee Valley, Ky. Born in Evansville, Ind. she attained fame as the author of the "Little Colonel'' books, a series of juvenilia much admired by the girls of the last generation. The heroine, a bright child with golden curls, was the favorite of her old Confederate grandpapa, hence her nickname. Mrs. Johnston began writing "Little Colonel" books in 1892, definitely ended the series in 1929. Several years ago she was told that a child had undergone a major operation without anesthetic on being promised a shelf...
...found dead near a half-finished painting it looked like an accident, but Lord Peter sniffed blood, proved to the police the picture had been painted after Campbell was dead. Six artists immediately fell under suspicion, but ultimately only one of them got it in the neck, and Authoress Sayers intimates that he was not born to be hanged...