Word: marghanita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Victorian Chaise Longue, by Marghanita Laski. A slight but chilling tale about a girl who strayed from the 20th century into the 19th (TIME, June...
...Victorian Chaise Longue, by Marghanita Laski. A slight but chilling tale about a girl who strayed from the 20th century into the 19th (TIME, June...
Split personality seems to be the literary vogue this season. In A Garden to the Sea (TIME, April 19), Philip Toynbee split his hero four ways, mainly to tell an experimental love story. Marghanita Laski used the simpler, two-way, Jekyll & Hyde approach in The Victorian Chaise Longue (TIME, June 14). In The Bird's Nest, Novelist Shirley Jackson reverts to Toynbee's four-in-one split to document a tortuous case of mental illness...
...elastic as a private eye's suspenders. It has often been stretched to include such weighty matters as character, group psychology, politics and sometimes even good writing. Thus a new category was created-well below the occasional Henry Jamesian thrillers turned out by such serious writers as Marghanita Laski (see below], but several steps above the Mickey Spillane gutter. A batch of new novels demonstrates the current suspense range from simple, old-fashioned sex fiends to complex, introverted drawing-room villains...
British book reviewers are immune to the virus of British understatement. When Marghanita Laski's The Victorian Chaise Longue was published in London six months ago, the Manchester Guadian hailed it as showing "almost ferocious power." Said Time and Tide: "[Miss Laski] stacked every card against herself to make her final really-grand slam more miraculous...