Word: biggish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sidgwick holds in England. Closely related to the Bensons (A. C. and E. F.), she belongs to a literary tradition of quiet humor, leisurely manner (461 close-packed pages to the present volume, the average modern novel boasting some leaded 300). Her particular knack is to vivify a biggish assortment of characters in their intricate interchange of much talk and suppressed British emotion...