Word: fanmail
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...forsaken female of mid-Victorian romances is alive & kicking yet. The only modern touch about her reappearance is that she is deflowered by a hero who does not bother to ask her name. Famed Novelist R. (for Zweig?) returns to Vienna after his holidays to find among his customary fanmail a fat letter superscribed ''To you, who have never known me." He reads on to learn that the unknown woman's only child has just died, that she is going to pour out her heart to him, sole consolation of her miserable life. She starts pouring...
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