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Enough to alarm the woman-wary is the contemporary trend to novels and memoirs by writers' wives and mistresses. Few years ago Arnold Bennett's mistress, Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, and his wife, Marguerite, published their intimate memoirs. About the same time appeared the memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife, Frieda. While these memoirs spilled plenty of beans, at least they were withheld until their subjects were dead. Not so Half A Loaf, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel by Sinclair Lewis' exwife, Grace Hegger...
ARNOLD BENNETT : A PORTRAIT DONE AT HOME-Dorothy Cheston Bennett-Ken- dall & Sharp...
...reputation. But now & again, in spite of its stained-glass windows, a widow's memorial lets in an occasional shaft of light on the human figure within. Like Frieda Lawrence's book on her late great husband (Not I, but the Wind; TIME, Oct. 8, 1934), Dorothy Cheston Bennett's intimate portrait of Arnold Bennett last week gave curious readers a worth-while wife's-eye view. Those who found her style awkward, her psychological probings selfconscious, could turn to the second half of the book, where 170 of "A. B.'s" letters furnished...
...Dorothy Cheston was never legally Arnold Bennett's wife, though before his death in 1931 a court let her adopt his name. Because he would not face the clamorous squalor of the divorce court, Bennett first would not, later could not get a divorce, under English law, from his real wife. When he first met Dorothy Cheston, he contemplated no further domestic entanglements. He was a famed middle-aged author, she a young (22-year-old) actress. Their friendship ripened perceptibly-from teas to tête-à-tête dinners to duets to a solemn kiss. Finally...
...whether to take him, Dorothy proposed a trial trip to Paris together-purely platonic. As the train pulled out of London's Victoria Station, according to his invariable custom Bennett changed to his "traveling hat"- "a round affair of tweed with a soft brim, peculiarly endearing." Records Dorothy Cheston: "I remember that I felt curiously responsible, as though I were traveling with bullion." In Paris something happened that decided her heart: every morning Bennett would call for her, bearing a bunch of white flowers which he had bought at a stall on the corner. "He carried these flowers tightly...