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...most serious charge against Mary was that she had lured Shelley away from his first wife, Harriet Westbrook. Harriet was then carrying a child of Shelley's. After Shelley, Mary and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, had set up housekeeping in London, the Prophet of Perfect...
...failed to find a map, but he unearthed a 17th-Century Italian book beneath the floor of a deserted shack. Just to have it appraised, he took it to Harriet Swift of the Boston Public Library. She turned the leaves, noticed a pattern of pinholes on page 101. The holes pierced letters, formed a simple code message. Its exciting intelligence: the King of Calf Island had buried a treasure on Strong Island, off the shore of Cape...
...society, wrapped in mothballs since Pearl Harbor, glittered at the first big postwar debut last week. In fashionable but fading Newport, the George Tysons of Boston and Newport presented their 18-year-old daughter, blond, blue-eyed Harriet Elizabeth, at a coming-out party costing an estimated...
Clinics & Visits. When would-be novelist Harriet Hassell came to him for help in 1937, brisk Professor Strode, no novelist himself, remarked skeptically: "I don't believe a person can be taught to write a novel"-then added: "but we'll see what happens.'" The result, Rachel's Children, went into four printings. Since then Hudson Strode, a full professor at Alabama since 1924 (specialty: Shakespeare) has been busy teaching students to write about what they know...
...KNIGHTS OF THE CAPE, AND OTHER STORIES OF RICARDO PALMA-Translated by Harriet de Onis-Knopf...