Word: grownups
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...philosophy of art and the technical problems of serial fiction were commonplaces of the domestic atmosphere. But when a young lady of eighteen writes a novel in four months and calmly asserts that it came to her out of the air, communicated by so-called automatic writing, the average grownup hesitates, comments McFee. Yet if one knows, the road from Colchester to Mersea where the whole coast at high tide is compacted of lonely islands, "of a quiet loveliness in summer with salt winds driving thick white clouds athwart a sky of palest azure," he has come close to England...
...wonderful doll's house given to some moderately well-to-do children. They treasure it?show it off to all their school friends except the little Kelveys, the washerwoman's daughters. Then one day the Kelveys do see it?and are almost instantly scolded away by a proper grownup. But they have seen it. The children in The Doll's House live and breathe?Katherine Mansfield told a little about them but not nearly...