Word: meeker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...IVORY MISCHIEF-Arthur Meeker Jr.-Houghton, Mifflin...
...Author Meeker really knows and likes his subject, which is 17th-Century France. None of his major incidents, none of his characters, are invented; there is none of the usual effort to hand the reader a night-school course in the political-military his tory of the age. Instead he sticks faithfully to a full account of the actual lives and for tunes of two absorbing Frenchwomen...
...Author Meeker's credit he handles these somewhat Suetonian materials not only without playing them up for the salacious trade, but so firmly that they become a social and human document, richly textured with quotidian details of housekeeping, matchmaking, small-talk and general upper-class living. Even the glimpses of Court, of battle, of provincial life, have little of the quality of set pieces, much of the taste of immediacy. Few historical novels do as much...