Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mary Anne, by Daphne du Maurier. A royal duke, a scheming mistress, a scandal that shakes the House of Commons-in other words, all that Du Maurier fans need for a happy evening (TIME, June...
...royal duke, a scheming mistress, a scandal that shakes the House of Commons-in other words, all that Du Maurier fans need for a happy evening (TIME, June...
Madame de Pompadour, by Nancy Mitford. A life of Louis XV's dazzling mistress, done up in rich literary brocades by a fine British writer (TIME, June...
...fables from 1920 to 1935. Each sample illustrates in its own way the Lagerkvist habit of walking with one foot firmly on the ground, the other in the clouds. They include: ¶ The Lift That Went Down into Hell, a grim little tale in which a lover and his mistress, their lips "moist with wine," step unsuspectingly into a hotel elevator...
...profession when she becomes the darling of the Duke of York, second son of George III and commander in chief of the army. But her stipend is lean, and she fattens it by peddling army commissions. When her c. in c. cashiers her for conduct unbecoming a mistress, she avenges herself by causing one of the juiciest scandals ever aired in the House of Commons. Her noble victim manages at least to stop her from writing her memoirs about him by making a cash & carry settlement. But Mary Anne, casting a Cassandra-like glance into the future, hopefully murmurs...