Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eldest of eleven children of an English country parson, apparently a solid character, John Cowper Powys was erratic from the start. From early childhood, he says, his life was dominated by a besetting neurotic sin. He calls it sadism but from the many examples he gives it sounds more like the peeping passion. As a young man he used to make trips to Brighton for the sole purpose of looking at girls' legs as they lay on the beach. For years he periodically bought and feverishly devoured armfuls of French pornographic books. When he first went to Manhattan, penny...
...CHILDHOOD - Henry Handel Richardson - Norton ($2.50). Short stories by Australia's No.1 woman novelist, Henrietta Richardson, including new chapters on the Mahonys (The Fortunes of Richard Mahony...
Allure (by Leigh Burton Wells; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). Marion (Edith Barrett) has been a sadist from her crib. In childhood she incurred the hatred of her entire family by pushing her sister Joan down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...
...that of a 'poor relation.' It had been my fate from earliest childhood to live in the presence of wealth which belonged to others." The family moved to Manhattan, where Upton put himself through Columbia as a special student by writing boys' adventure stories for the pulp magazines under the names of "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison, U. S. A." and "Ensign Clarke Fitch, U. S. N." In 1900, when he was 22, he married Meta Fuller, whose father was a newspaperman, whose mother was an old friend of Mrs. Sinclair's. They had a baby at once...
...Their four children seem to be typical middle-western youngsters but the outside change and movement is reflected upon them and they drift rapidly away from their parents. Carl, the eldest and the pet of the family and the town, drifts through force of habit into marriage with a childhood sweetheart and after a few years of struggle to attain a richness and response which his wife cannot give him, he settles down to a life of intellectual stagnation and sexual frustration as Superintendent of Schools in the small neighboring town of Geneva. Dorothy, the simple, beautiful model-daughter, makes...