Word: englishwoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Daphne is raped in mysterious circumstances, the brutal Merrick seizes on the opportunity to arrest and torture Kumar. While Kumar languishes in jail, the story follows Merrick to another posting, and to a potential odd coupling between another Englishwoman, Sarah Layton (Geraldrne James), and an Indian, Ahmed Kasim (Derrick Branche). Around them all and around every corner hovers Count Bro-nowsky (Eric Porter). In a world where British cliques and clans are mixed with Hindu castes and classes, Bronowsky-a Russian emigre, an aristocrat and a confirmed bachelor-does not fit on any score. But neither does Merrick...
...reality of this writer's beginnings was none too efficacious. Cheever was born the son of a prosperous shoe-merchant and a strong minded Englishwoman, in Wollaston, Massachusetts, in 1912. Bad deals and the depression destroyed his father and left the family dependent on the mother's quaint foreign gift shop. Young John, whose successful older brother Fred had begun at Dartmouth, found himself associating with his embittered, self-pitying father, while his mother grew increasingly distant...
True to form, Lessing is staying one step ahead of her critics. She has finished a new novel, her 19th, to be published next year. It concerns a young Englishwoman who drifts into terrorist activity, an apparent return to the political subject matter of Lessing's earlier work. Despite "a few very nice fan letters," she has no plans to resurrect Jane Somers in print, though fans and critics will undoubtedly race to read the pseudonymous works and fit them into Lessing's oeuvre. The irony of that does not escape the author. Were...
Prawer Jhabvala's adaptation of her novel rings true throughout the film. Before they can understand the society they have chosen to enter. Anne and Olivia must learn to live with the tedious Indian climate and landscape. As an Englishwoman who married an Indian, Jhabvala understands better than anyone the difficulty of living between cultures, neither Indian nor fully British. She endows the relationships between Anne and Olivia and their Indian lovers with a passion and tension which could only derive from common experience...
...Savage is not entirely unjustified in his disparaging assessments, for he encounters an extraordinarily unattractive group of people. In "An English Unofficial Rose," Savage falls, in love with Sophie Graveney, a "glamorous and intelligent" young Englishwoman, apparently unemployed and unattached. When Savage asks her what she does for a living, she says, "I just do a little acting," a statement which he does not fully understand until after she places him in an apartment with suggestive remarks of "Wouldn't it be super to live there?" Savage is hooked and signs a lease, but he is rudely disappointed when...