Word: batchelor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jewel's haunted souls with understated urgency. As the gawky Daphne, Wooldridge is a particular marvel. Eyes wide and full of a startled innocence, she galumphs through life with such sweet diffidence that plainness itself seems radiant. An equally luminous pathos surrounds Dame Peggy Ashcroft's Barbie Batchelor, a sad little figure of baffled devotion who has little to do save muddle through her final days "very tired and old and far from home...
Antonia White worked as a journalist and as a translator from the French. She wrote three more autobiographical books, which follow her heroine, now called Clara Batchelor, until she is 23. The Lost Traveller centers on her intense relation with her adoring but autocratic father. If Claude Batchelor lacks Dickensian vitality, he is drawn with a similar range of contradictory, deeply human strengths and weaknesses. The Sugar House and Beyond the Glass, covering a disastrous marriage and an emotional breakdown (which White also suffered), are less effective, but reflect the accuracy and honesty of the author's eye. White...