Word: mitfordian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mitfordian Retreads. For all her 64 years Novelist Bowen still writes best about childhood. The long middle passage, which flashes back to the days of St. Agatha's, catalogues the small terrors and large thoughts of preadolescence with delicate insight. It could stand on its own as a finely wrought novella, and probably should, since the contemporary "comic" passages that flank it are flabby by comparison...
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