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...memoirs are still in the dictation stage: every day the memoirist rattles off Churchillian prose to his secretaries. Five ribbon-bound stacks of notes, diaries and outlines, one for each volume, lie on Winston Churchill's work table in his library at Chartwell. Early next year, it is hoped. Vol. I (probably covering the period up to Dunkirk) will appear in a weekly series in LIFE, and daily installments in the Times. Other installments will probably follow at six-month intervals, timed to dovetail with book publication by Houghton Mifflin...
...George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of the King & Queen. The younger son is Sacheverell, amateur of baroque art, and biographer of Franz Liszt...
...Author. Memoirist Florence Emily Hardy married Thomas Hardy in February 1914, 16 months after the death of the first Mrs. Hardy. Younger than her husband, she devoted herself to his care, his work, his friends; assiduously noted his every thought and move; be came his female Boswell. Amply aided by the Hardy journal and scores of letters, this book forms the second part of a biography begun with The Early Life of Thomas Hardy (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929), covers the period from 1892 until his death...
Zita-Queen, lady, unsensational memoirist...