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Dashing as diplomats and espionage agents, grand as poets, even grander as kings, the British are notorious duds when it comes to fashion. Though endowed with better-than-average raw material, Englishwomen intent on clothes that set them off had to cross at least a channel, sometimes a sea, to find them...
...English civil servants who rule the town of Chandrapore. An informal tea party introduces us to a circle of characters: the impulsive, Dr. Aziz, a young Indian who desires friendship with the English; the host, Mr. Fielding, a wise English teacher who is immediately attracted to Aziz. And two Englishwomen: Miss Adela Quested is a frigid young thing, engaged to an English magistrate in Chandrapore; and the mother of her fiance is Mrs. Moore. They accept Aziz's invitation picnic with him at the Marabar caves...
Flight 712, from Geneva to London, began routinely one balmy summer's night three weeks ago. Aboard the 40-passenger Swissair Convair there were only five passengers: four Englishwomen and a ten-year-old boy, returning from holidays in Switzerland. Over the English Channel. 35 minutes from flight's end, one engine gave out, then the other coughed and went dead. The plane landed on a calm sea, only a mile from shore, but it carried no lifebelts, jackets or dinghies (required only when a flight is more than 30 minutes over water). Before boats from shore could...
Author Charques' novel is not quite a match for two splendid masterpieces of historical fiction recently produced by other Englishwomen: The Golden Hand, by Edith Simon, and The Man On A Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Yet it has the charm of a hearty good story, and if the style is mildly mock-archaic, it is pretty good in its pretense...
...Hope Muntz, The Golden Band, by Edith Simon (TIME, April 28), and The Man on a Donkey, by H.F.M. Prescott, published last week in the U.S. All three novels are set in England during the Middle Ages or early modern times. All three were written by scholarly and literate Englishwomen. All three have something of the graciously precise air of old tapestry...