Word: executrix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christie's has announced that it will sell 65 of Papa's letters to Adriana, a Milanese countess and the self-proclaimed heroine of Across the River and Into the Trees. Miss Mary, clinging to her notion that some things are indeed sagrada, declared that as executrix of her husband's estate she will try to keep the auctioned letters from being published, even though some excerpts have already found their way into the Times of London...
...violated the confidential relationship that existed between Hotch and Papa. But her main argument was that it appropriated her literary property. The law holds that the author of a letter maintains ownership of its contents, and Mary claimed that her husband's estate, of which she is both executrix and beneficiary, maintained ownership of the material Hotchner had used in his book...