Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dolphin is pardoned, Ann says she is out of prison too - the prison of ambition for a selfish success. Tying the story up with this platitude does not seriously weaken what has preceded it - an intelligent study, over-solemn but affecting, of a mature woman at work and in love...
...face. Franklin fitted Benny up in a printshop and expected Benny to be happy, but he wasn't. "While Franklin, by his precept, urged him to become a craftsman, he obliged him, by his glory, to act the lordling. While he preached simplicity, industry, frugality and love of the people to him, his three houses, his sedan chair, his titles and his fame gave him the rank of a nobleman. When he thought about this, Benny felt wretched and ashamed. But what could he do about...
...troubles Benny fell in love with Margaret Markoe. Uncertain, coy and hard to please, she led him a weary dance but finally married him. Benjamin Franklin died. The same year (1790) Benny started his first newspaper, the General Advertiser, and Political, Commercial, Agricultural and Literary Journal...
...most Browningites and most Manhattan playgoers know, Poet Robert Browning was not Poetess Elizabeth Barrett's first love. Highest in her affections before Browning's appearance and his rival even for a short time after it was her spaniel Flush. Perhaps to show that of the making of biographies there is no end, perhaps because such a dog's-eye-view of human romance appealed to her originality, Virginia Woolf has written a vignette in which both Flush and his invalid mistress are brought touchingly to life. If at times Flush seems more Woolf than spaniel...
Flush was a red cocker spaniel of good breeding whose puppyhood was passed in the pleasant English countryside near Reading. Before he was out of his doggy teens he had tasted the pleasures of love and was a father. Then his owner, Miss Mitford, gave him to her invalid friend, Elizabeth Barrett. In his new mistress's home, on London's genteel Wimpole Street, Flush passed into polite and celibate seclusion. Though not by nature a lapdog, Flush sacrificed his roaming instincts and became a devoted stay-at-home, never stirring from Miss Barrett's room except...