Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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George Sand was a born novelist. From her earliest years, it may be said that she lived by imagination, absorbed in a life of imaginary creation which put the things of real life outside of her ken. This was a result of her rural bringing up in Berry, which she loved so dearly...
...Tuesday evenings during February, March and April, Mr. Copeland will give a course of lectures, open only to members of the University, on the English Novelists. The lectures will be both biographical and critical, and on each evening some passages will read from the author under discussion. Mr. Copeland will trace the resemblances between the different novelists and show how far the later ones are indebted to the earlier, but at the same time he will endeavor to make the treatment of each novelist complete and interesting of itself for the benefit of men who do not attend regularly. Sets...
...Marion Crawford, the novelist, delivered the third lecture in aid of the Radcliffe Scholarship fund in Sanders Theatre last evening. Taking for his subject, "Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican," he sketched the personality of the Pope, his life, and his achievements. He characterized Leo XIII as one of the great statesmen and scholars of the age, a man who has raised the church to her present high position in large measure by his own greatness...
...meeting of the Cercle Francais held Wednesday evening at the Colonial Club, Professor Jules Luquiens of Yale, delivered a scholarly lecture on Victor Cherbuliez, the French novelist...
Professor Jules Luquiens, head of the French Department of Yale University, will speak before the Cercle Francais at the Colonial Club tonight at 7.30 on Victor Cherbuliez, the great modern French novelist...