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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private lives pass regularly into the public domain. "Oh, it's not sudden," said Shirley (as related by Louella). "I've been in Palm Springs for six days trying to think out the best thing to do. I didn't want to break up my home and my marriage, but there's no other way. I don't want to hurt John. I want our separation and divorce to be dignified. I am merely going to charge cruelty. John is a nice boy, but he's a little mixed...
...part, Agar, going home to his mother, announced that he would not contest Shirley's divorce. Said he: "I agree with Shirley that it must be done in a dignified manner...
...robust burghers of Cincinnati had ever known of the notebooks that bitter Mrs. Trollope was carrying home up her raveled sleeve, they would have found some way to keep her in town. "I cannot speculate," said the redoubtable old dame, "and I cannot reason; but I can see and hear." The London firm of Whittaker, Treacher & Co. thought so too. Barely two years later, when Cincinnatians were still guffawing every time they passed the crazy shell known as "Trollope's Folly," a book appeared that roused one of the loudest howls of pain and outrage ever heard...
Domestic Manners of the Americans sold so well both at home and abroad that it established Frances Trollope as a professional writer (she wrote more than 20 novels and books of travels in the remaining 30 years of her life) and helped to recoup for herself and her five children (of whom Anthony Trollope was to become a far more famous author than his mother) the money lost in "Trollope's Folly." Her new readers of 1949 are likely to laugh, both at Britain's Trollope and Jackson's America. Like Mark Twain, they may even decide...
...book, Casualty, published in 1946, was a story of stagnation in a U.S. Army camp in Italy, of sullen enlisted men, buck-passing officers, drunkenness, boredom, brief and fatal outbreaks of violence. His second, Find Me in Fire (1948), told of the return of a crippled soldier to his home town after the war, and of his inability to find a place for himself in it again. The Wolf That Fed Us, published earlier this year, was a collection of eight war stories, which had the spare narrative, the graphic power and something of the grotesque humor of Erskine Caldwell...