Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colby had reason to talk of herself as well as her husband last week. She had published a novel* with a political twist. Some said she had used her husband as one of the characters. Hence, her "colossal" and emphatic reply, to which she added...
Wives of lawyers and mothers of three daughters do not, as a rule, write novels, so Mrs. Colby proceeded to tell a bit about herself and her work: "This is my first novel. . . . How did I come to write it? Oh, I don't think I can tell you that. You see, I believe these things just come out of the subconscious mind. ... I write in longhand and I am so messy about it that each chapter has to be re-written a dozen times. I don't think I could use a typewriter- the hammering would distract...
Undistracted, Mrs. Colby has another novel, Back Stream, coming off the presses later this year; she is at work on a third...
English 29b will be given in the second half year by Mr. L. D. Peterkin, of the University English Department. The course will deal with the history of the English novel from Dickens to the present time. It will be given on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 10 o'clock...
GOODBYE, STRANGER?Stella Ben-son?Macmillan ($2). Stella Benson, liveliest of travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy...