Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grumpy Sam. Why Miss Hahn bothered to go after her becomes clear as she brilliantly follows prim, self-satisfied Authoress Burney through her career. The success of her first tender little bore of a novel, Evelina (1778), lifted her out of the circle around her father, Dr. Burney the music master, and into the center of the group surrounding the formidable Dr. Johnson. Fanny became the confidante of Mrs. Thrale, who was loved by the great man after his grumpy fashion. When Mr. Thrale died and left his wife free to marry, she passed Johnson by and declared she would...
...DEGREE OF PRUDERY (340 pp.)-Emily Hahn-Doubleday...
...first glance there seems to be something badly awry in Emily Hahn's choice of 18th Century Novelist Fanny Burney as the subject for a biography. Miss Burney kept a journal which frequently tells how the turn of the talk had forced her to dart from a room with blushing cheeks. She would have run like a deer from her cigar-smoking biographer, who, in China to Me, documented her position as one of the most uninhibited girls on the China Coast...
...Miss Hahn has always written direct, and sometimes excessively frank accounts of the whole substance of her globe-ranging life; Miss Burney produced her first novel while living quietly at home with father. Shy, mousy Fanny was, in fact, the pioneer of the monstrous regiment of sentimental domestic novels written for ladies, by ladies, and about ladies & gentlemen-the sort of novel that melts in the mind the way home-made fudge melts in the mouth...
Adler, Altmeyer, Baker, D. G. Black, D. Black, Budabin, Cadenhead, Coons, Cover, Davidson, Dollin, Douglas, Dowd, French, Gilman, Goldberg, Goodman, Gordon, Green, Greenburg, Grote, Hahn, Harris, Hellman, Hersey, Hollman, Huttenbauer, Johnson, L. Kane, S. Kane, Kean, Kiphart, Kripke, Laserson, Leahow, Levenson, Levett, Madden, Martin, Miller, Manafo, Powers, Rolsman, Richardson, Rubel, Saletan, Swartzberg, Soule, Trett, Ulin, Vickery, Yazegian and Yoskowitz...