Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calypso-like musings of Edith Efron, U.S.-born wife of a Port au Prince businessman, as reported in the Haiti...
...Golden Hand, by Edith Simon. A warm and vivid historical novel of life & death in a 14th century English village (TIME, April...
...GOLDEN HAND (501 pp.]-Edith Simon-Putnam...
...Golden Hand is the fifth novel by Edith Simon, the wife of a research chemist at the University of Edinburgh. It tells the story of 53 years (1347-1400) in the life of an imaginary English village called Bedesford-its births, feasts, miracles, wars, witches, lepers, plagues, rapes, murders, floods; and its common talk, small superstitions and deep-breathing faith; the wild downs and dark woods around it; all the kinds of people, from bondman to merchant to lord bishop, who filled out its vivid society; and the great cathedral they all built in the waste. It is, in brief...
...critic thus singled out was TIME's Art Editor Alexander Eliot, eight of whose ten choices are reproduced on this page. (Not shown: John Marin's Sun, Isles, and Sea and Thomas Eakins' Mrs. Edith Mahon...