Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact with people rather than make friends. His outwardly charming, cold-fish personality seems to carry a jinx. Before he is 20, he is partially responsible for the deaths of his childhood sweetheart and of his first mistress. At home he can do nothing to stave off his mother's crack-up as she drowns in alcohol...
Modigliani died at 35, of drink, hashish, poverty and TB. Two days later his mistress-and the mother of his daughter -killed herself; the child was raised by her paternal grandmother and aunt, who always spoke in reverent tones of "your poor father." Jeanne Modigliani grew up to be an art scholar, and now she has done a prim but thorough job of sorting out her father's miserable binge of a life...
...Mistress to an Age, by J. Christopher Herold. A topnotch biography of Mme. de Stael, who was equally at home in the drawing rooms, council rooms and bedrooms of Revolutionary France...
...lived with beggars, cutthroats, cutpurses, dwarfs and cripples, including the leering, one-eyed gangleader Calembredaine, who had a "nightmare face, blurred by long strands of greasy hair [and] marked by a violet wen.'' It was Calembredaine who in a frightful brawl won Angélique as his mistress and carried her unconscious to his lair. When Calembredaine tore off wig and wen, who should he be but Nicholas, the ever-loving peasant friend from old Poitou...
...MISTRESS TO AN AGE (500 pp.)-J. Chrlsfopher Herold-Bobbs-Merrill...