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...lived in England for generations, daughter of a Victorian clergyman, Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner and many another writer are glad to see her. Other books: The Love Child, As Far As Jane's Grandmother's, The Triumphant Footman...
...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...
...Authoress Celarié introduces the interlude by asking Marocaine Batoul "How can a woman among you deceive her husband . . . [when] the houses are so shut in, the women so well guarded?" Batoul replies with several personal anecdotes and a story of which she is not sure "whether it is true. It is a very old one." When Mme Celarié begs for another "story," Batoul complies with the stone-in-the-well tale. Mme Celarié's equivocal comment on these narratives: "These old stories, recalling those gusty ones of our ancestors in the Middle Ages, seldom fail...
...Authoress Claire Goll has made a sordid story a little too true to be sordid. Enterprising Publisher Knopf has indicated the dual nature of the book, beckons two different publics by putting out The Jewel in two different jackets: one lurid, one chaste...
...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...