Word: mannin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...UNWISE - Ethel Mannin - Knopf ($2.50). Undistinguished novel about "lower middle-class" Londoners, done in a lower middle-class manner...
With William Morris' not notoriously intelligible verses Authoress Mannin captions the three sections of her novel, symbolizes the three phases of her heroine's career?summery childhood, cryptic girlhood, mystic womanhood. Linda's simple story, the details of her family's life on Shawn's farm, make a pretty picture to hang on a cottage wall. Three generations back the Shawns had come from Ireland, rented a piece of land near Flaydering, near the North Sea. Andrew, Linda's father, runs the farm as well as his Celtic irresponsibility allows. His wife Ellen, once a schoolmarm...
...Author. Brought up in a strict orthodoxy that disapproved of literature as a career, Authoress Mannin (born 1900) started writing young. Married at 19, she has one daughter, is now separated from her husband. She believes she is the only English authoress who both keeps house and pursues her literary career with out family or marital support. Interested in child psychology, education, Communism, she is a member of the Inde pendent Labor Party, writes regularly for I. L. P.'s New Leader. Books: Pilgrims, Confessions & Impressions, Hunger of the Sea, Sounding Brass, Ragged Banners, Common-sense and the Child...