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...secret, as readers quickly learned, was Pym's reliability. She offered a narrow world, not sentimentalized, but comfortable in its coherence. Characters slipped along easily from book to book, much as they do in the vaster schemes of Trollope. In Crampton Hodnet (written around 1940 but prepared for publication only now by Pym's literary executor), one comes upon two old friends from Jane and Prudence (1953), tyrannical old Miss Doggett and her younger paid companion, the self-effacing Miss Morrow. Their props and surroundings are familiar too: the excellent women "full of good sense," the pampered Anglican priests...
...ladies live, appropriately, in an anonymous village. In this book Pym places them a bit awkwardly in the academic setting of Oxford, where she herself was educated. Miss Doggett is about the same, a tactless, sanctimonious bully robed in purple and decorated with bespoke hats. The feather-light Crampton Hodnet is about three brief romances, two of which Miss Doggett tries to meddle with and one that she misses completely, although it involves her companion and the curate who boards with...
...little mouse who acquires sexual power when she puts on a blue velvet dress. But this Miss Morrow is gentle and vulnerable, a creature whose only asset is her sense of decency. Jane and Prudence shows a novelist in complete command, but the rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination as it pauses for a moment in perfect understanding of a character. That sympathy stretches beyond the horizon of comedy...
Marv Weiss, with nine goals, and Grey Hodnet, with seven, led the team's powerful attack, which outscored Crimson opponents, 28 to 14. In the nets, Lindsay Fischer kept rival teams to less than two goals a game. This combination of goal tending and scoring accounted for the team's seven victories, exceeding the total wins of any of the four teams above it in the standings. The Standings Won Lost Tied Yale 4 2 0 Cornell 4 2 0 Brown 2 1 1 Harvard 3 2 1 Princeton 4 3 0 Dartmouth 2 3 0 Columbia...
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