Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toynbee allied himself with another British scholarly dynasty by marrying the daughter of Professor Gilbert Murray, famous classical scholar and the Swinburnian translator of Euripides and other Greek dramatists. They had three sons, of whom the best known is Philip Toynbee, novelist (School in Private, The Barricades) and reviewer for British magazines like Horizon, Contact and others. Shortly after World War II, Toynbee and Rosalind Murray were divorced. Toynbee then married Veronica Boulter, for many years his secretary and researcher...
...Forster's "Where Angels Fear to Tread" owes its significance to "an ironical, unforgiving attitude towards its characters," said Professor Israel Kapstein of Brown as he opened the series on the noted English novelist before the Kirkland House Forum last night. The purpose of the series is to lay the ground for a proposed talk by Forster himself when he visits the U. S. this Spring...
Unlike oil and water, symbolism and realism can be mixed-but it takes a skilled hand. Ambitious young Novelist Jean Stafford (Boston Adventure) takes a try at it in her second novel, and doesn't bring it off. In parts The Mountain Lion is beautifully clear-a delicate, sharp story of childhood and adolescence. But it darkens toward the end, and winds up in a desperately contrived coincidence...
...Novelist Stafford (who is the wife of Poet Robert Lowell) tells the story of Molly Fawcett, a plain, wise little girl growing up near Los Angeles in the 1920s. Going on nine when the story begins, she and her brother Ralph, 11, are the "intellectuals" of the family. Molly writes poetry and reads The American Boy; Ralph has already studied the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Reproduction. Like any brother and sister, they sometimes fight, but the rest of the time they are such cronies and co-conspirators that Molly thinks they might one day get married...
...fairly obvious symbol of adolescent terrors and stirrings, is shot and killed in the end. Molly accidentally gets in the way of Ralph's shot, is killed at the same time-which is pretty dank symbolism and practically plain nonsense in any other terms. At her best Novelist Stafford handles the story well; but when she wants to be tragic she succeeds only in being melodramatic...