Word: memoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memoir of the author's historian husband and of her father, famed Southern author George W. Cable, whose Civil War novel Dr. Sevier has been cited as a forerunner of Gone With The Wind...
...Going Down Sackville Street (the line is from a bawdy ballad) is not patterned in the ordinary, staid memoir manner. Not only by the title but by the book's motto ("We Irishmen are apt to think something and nothing are near neighbors") and the author's note ("The names in this book are real, the characters fictitious") readers are warned to hang on to their hats...
...Marquand's current novel in the form of a memoir is really very nice. However much the codfish aristocracy may affect to ignore it, or to be very politely amused-but-still-uncomprehending, it has accomplished a difficult artistic end. In depicting the wonders and the natural privileges appertaining to life in Boston out of the months of the especially blest themselves, he has accomplished no mean success. And the last man to deny that would, let it be hoped, be Mr. M. deW. Howe, your grandmother's friend...
...treasury of his unpublished fiction, one sample of which so entertained Morris that he asked to meet the author. The result was a friendship that lasted as long as Morris lived. Last week Shaw offered U. S. readers his pleasant reminiscences of his friend in a 52-page memoir originally published in England as the foreword to a monumental, expensive ($20.75) biography of Morris written by his daughter...
...UNDER FORTY-Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). Brief collection of six quiet Prose pieces ranging from an essay on Thomas Mann to a memoir of Sarah Orne Jewett, including a few personal recollections by the most reticent of contemporary novelists. The title means that the book "will not interest persons under 40 years of age." VILLAINS AND VIGILANTES-Stanton...