Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sappho was thought unladylike not so much because of her personal habits as because of the poetry she wrote. But Sappho has many a sister in these westering years. Since poets generally discarded their priestlike function for that of self-mindreaders, women have flocked to join the profession and some...
A poet but a lady poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay writes not only valentines but epitaphs in lines less mighty than aristocratic. Even when she compares a woman's breasts to wild carrot and onion blossoms or describes the mating of dinosaurs, she contrives to make neither an uncouth...
THE LONELY LADY OF DULWICH-Maurice Baring-Knopf ($2).
Maurice Baring is old-school without being oldfashioned. Urbane without pomp, sentimental but only sensibly so, he has the happy faculty of appearing as a citizen of the world without showing off the labels on his baggage. His latest novel, The Lonely Lady of Dulwich, is a little book (150...
Zita was a Victorian beauty who married a solid Englishman, a gentleman though a banker. He buried her in the country, never thought about her amusement. As mutely Victorian as he, she was unhappy but would not have admitted it. When business settled them in Paris, life began to look...