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What happened to Ralph Kempner was in no way unusual. His Cedarsville boyhood was innocent and irresponsible, marred by no greater sins than forbidden swimming and fishing. Growing up, he learned about sex from his mother's young housemaid, and learned about the same time that his mother meant to run his life. Especially, she was determined to pick his wife, and after Yale and his father's death, Ralph was the town's prize catch. But he turned down the nice girl of his mother's choice and became that much-whispered-about institution...
...Upton Sinclair showed that he was capable of a change of pace. Sticking to his promise to ditch his ubiquitous, ten-novel hero, Lanny Budd, he wrote Another Pamela; or, Virtue Still Rewarded, a sly gibe at rich, talky parlor liberals seen through the wide eyes of an ingenuous housemaid. His literary model: 18th Century Novelist Samuel Richardson's famed Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded...
...cross between a card and a cad. Unlike most of the distinguished British authors of the century, he was neither an English gentleman nor an American expatriate. His father worked as a hired gardener, later owned a pottery shop which brought him little success; his mother, a onetime housemaid, became a rather incapable housekeeper. His own visage, which, in his journalistic heyday, beamed down on Londoners from billboards and the sides of the city's big red buses, was unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice was shrill and slightly cockney. While indubitably a born writer...
...housekeeping staff members were chosen through personal interviews by the office of the Advisor to the student activities staff. Their housemaid duties, which includes caring for rooms on Saturdays as well as weekdays, are relatively simple, and each man works a total of about 12 hours a week...
...departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir to give her a long bong jour . . ."). Charley alone is enough to show why Novelist Elizabeth Bowen considers Henry Green "one of the living novelists whom I admire most." But Housemaid Edie, who builds their furtive little affair into a full-blown storm of love and wedding bells (in Britain), is an even more subtle and profound creation, warm as toast towards her Charley but cold and calculating as a stockbroker in getting him under the lock & key of matrimony. Cobwebs over Eire...