Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed author of Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home condolences on her onetime threatening non-sanity...
...finally focuses on the now pitiful, bedridden Lottie as a new object for the domineering energy and mother-love that was as much the cause as it is the cure of so much sorrow. The Significance. Dorothy Canfield has here achieved a magnificent demonstration of the literary maxim: "An author must be God to his characters." She has first caused, then seen, understood and clearly presented, everything these Bascombs think and feel and do and are. Good and bad characteristics, actions of strength and weakness, conflicting motives, are balanced upon each of them like saddlebags on pack-mules-firmly, evenly...
...their narrow fortunes rise and fall, she lives on, always the self-reliant child of the roads at heart, trusting only her own being as the total of reality it is given man to know in his time. The writing is fibrous yet delicate-again like a vine. The author, a mature maiden lady, is little known, save for a volume of children's poems (Under the Tree) called "graceful," "clear," "candid" by Critic Louis Untermeyer...
...fading saleswoman sees a bearded lover watching daily from a neighboring window for her arisings; discovers the face to be a carved Christ's; resigns herself once more to loving the celluloid doll in her store-window demonstration of a patent crib. There are moments when the author's sensitive comprehension threatens to quaver and mawk, but these moments are rare and in them quiet ecstasy is equally imminent. Some may say that the frustrated or guilty woman appears rather more frequently in Benefield stories than seems natural; that he is thus limited, perhaps hipped. But not even...
...Modest Barry Benefield, author, was then his publisher's publicity...