Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Jane Austen, one of her models in the art of fiction, Elizabeth Taylor has lived a quiet life in provincial England. As a schoolgirl in Reading, she wrote surreptitious romances when she was supposed to be studying; she worked as a governess, later as a librarian, then she married and had two children. She is now a fair, grey-eyed young woman (36) who lives with her family in Buckinghamshire and, thinking that to be adventure enough, hopes never to have any others. She is a born writer and a good...
...athletic, Adams maintains its own squash courts in the back of the University courts on Linden street. The studious will find the library upstairs in "C" entry well supplied with texts, reference books, and fiction. And for the musically inclined, a collection of classical and semi-classical records is always on file. Those who wouldst live dangerously can test their attitude towards parietal rules against the challenge of over a dozen unguarded gates. What more could a Gold Coaster, past or present want in the way of conveniences...
...brunette Elizabeth Taylor (Amy) in a blonde wig, Janet Leigh (Meg), and Margaret O'Brien (Beth). Though the faces have changed, the girlish flutter and flummery are still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching wealthy Laurie (Peter Lawford). Little Beth once more wastes away, bravely and wistfully, to an early death...
Urbane Indians. Unlike Elmer Gantry or the other pious hypocrites in Lewis' fiction, Aaron Gadd is an honest man. It is remarkable that at 64, after a career of vigorous scoffing, Lewis has written a serious study of an idealistic minister and presented him as a sensible and sympathetic character. It is still more remarkable that he has done so without ridiculing Aaron's personal struggle for grace and his hope of salvation, that he has made the forlorn life of the mission adventurous despite the total lack of adventurous incident, and that he has never...
Many writers need to live with their experiences for ten or 15 years before they can make first-class fiction out of them. If this is true of 24-year-old Truman Capote, it could explain why the two best stories in this collection are about remarkable ten-and twelve-year-olds. These two stories, Children on Their Birthdays and Jug of Silver, are written with full sympathy for their juveniles and an effortless command of the scene. They could become small classics of their kind...