Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater part of this narrative of an unadventurous but representative life is given in Grandma Brown's own words. Says her daughter-in-law: "Recording her story in her own pungent speech, I have hoped to catch and preserve for Grandmother Brown's descendants some of the flavor of her personality; her aspirations, her achievements, even her limitations; her innocent vanities; her lovable animosities; her patient endeavors...
...morphine habit. No one knew how or where she died. Rella was a farmer's daughter, and just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with him, but his wife got him away in time. A Manhattan actress, Ernestine took life a little too fast. When she thought she had had enough, she turned on the gas. Rona was making a good thing out of a stenographic agency, but left it for a temperamental writer. When he finally deserted her, she started another agency. Ida was a rawboned Middle-western farmer...
...Manner. Author Dreiser has no sense of style, would be hard to imitate. His writing is ponderous, jumbled, awkward. This is typical: "Indeed, the life and light that was in her, if life and light it was, was a wholly quaint and laura-jean-shian thing, a smattering or perhaps, better yet, compote of hearsay culture as well as utility . . . plus gentility that was innate but colored by spindrift and spume concerning how ladies and gentlemen in some fabulous land of gentility (England principally, I believe; the old South next) conducted themselves...
...Born in Indiana in 1871, he wrote for newspapers (Chicago Globe}, was traveling correspondent for St. Louis Globe-Democrat, edited Butterick Publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea). Fat-cheeked, loose-lipped, furrowed of brow, Author Dreiser looks like what he is: a puzzled brooder over the tragic inconsistencies of life. Other books: The "Genius," Chains, Jennie Gerhardt, Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy...
Author Wiegler presents a portfolio of 21 thumbnail biographies: impressionistic studies of men and women of genius. Some are boudoir, some bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies...