Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adamant. When he called a meeting, of New York Army members to try to convert them to his Volunteers, sister Evangeline found the doors closed against her. She dashed around to the rear of the building, climbed the fire escape and appeared dramatically on the platform. She spoke, writes Author Wilson, "as seldom she has spoken before or since." The Salvationists (but not brother Ballington) were won over...
...about myself. I won't write about myself, and that decides it." But she let somebody else do it: she handed her papers and correspondence over to British Journalist Philip Whitwell Wilson, with whom she had been in close touch for some 20 years. Published this week is Author Wilson's General Evangeline Booth (Scribner; $3.50)-a warm and folksy paean of praise for a remarkable woman...
When a suspicious British soldier leads a searching party to the house, Dennehay goes over the cliff and is smashed to death. As Author Godden handles this story, it becomes at once an anguished lyric and a beautifully balanced tale of suspense...
...taken the little money her father had left her, walked out on her domineering spinster roommate in London and bought a lonesome cliffside house on the Cornish coast. In her second novel, British Author Jon Godden* has drawn a terrifying picture of the consequences of Edwina's loneliness, a warning of the psychological perils that beset those humans who cannot make their terms with humanity...
...rise with your unconscious grace and ring the bell?" they say). They talk thus even when they are planning murder, fraud and forgery, or saying aloud the thoughts that living people are most careful not to say. They do their grim talking in dining rooms and nurseries which the author hardly ever describes, but which Critic Edward Sack-ville-West has neatly termed "embowered, rook-enchanted concentration camps." The persevering reader will find that the sum total of all this artifice, melodrama and incredible behavior is a warm, witty, profoundly tragic portrait of married and family life...