Word: leverson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LIMIT (256 pp.)-Ada Leverson-Norton...
...wittiest woman in the world," said Oscar Wilde of Ada Leverson. Others who admired Ada's sparkle were Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Henry James and George Bernard Shaw (whom she succeeded as drama critic of the Saturday Review). Venomous with bores, she flattened them joyfully. When a vacation acquaintance buttonholed her with "I don't know whether you realize it ... but my aunt was a Thunderby," Ada cried, "Oh, how terrible! Oughtn't we to inform the management?" Accused of using peroxide on her hair, she flashed that she "only darkened it a little at the roots...
...Leverson died in 1936, deaf, but witty to the last. In addition to her dramatic criticism, she left six novels and at least one unfinished work-to be entitled (she said) The Collected Telegrams of Oscar Wilde. Her third novel, The Limit (1911), now appears in the U.S. for the first time. It is a fine example of the Leverson specialty: Edwardian laughter with an edge...
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