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Word: morganna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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...General's Lady, a sort of colonial version of the Judd Gray-Ruth Snyder case, tells the story of a beautiful, vainglorious Tory adulteress, Morganna Bale, wife of a middleaged, good-natured Continental general. In the last year of the Revolution, when the story begins, Morganna acquires two worshipful protégés, a pretty farm girl and a handsome British deserter. When she falls in love with the deserter, he takes fright at her reckless passion, tries to escape. Promptly retrieved, he resists no further. Two months later, the war ended, he is so hypnotized that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Colonial Adulteress | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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