Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many U.S. housewives have gotten such a windfall in the morning mail as came last fortnight to 25-year-old Dorothea Cornwell of Louisville. She had just won the biennial $10,000 prize awarded jointly, by Manhattan Publishers Dodd, Mead & Co. and Redbook* for the best unpublished novel submitted. Author Cornwell's prizewinner, They Dare Not Go AHunting, which was selected from several hundred entries, will run serially this summer in Redbook, appear in book form some time later...
...Vindicator, later turned to short-story writing. In 1942 she won second prize in a Story magazine short-story contest. A devotee of dancing, riding, dogs and South American music, as well as "a very bad cook," Author Cornwell had last week finished the first chapters of her second novel-which is about another mother-daughter situation showing the effect of environment upon a child...
Frossia is the story of a girl who remained. A Russian chronicle of 358 pages, it is a documentary novel as solid and as solemn as a collection of social workers' case histories, formless, agonized, repetitious, linked only by the personality of Frossia, who in turn is kept going by her faith in a Russia that survives revolutions, the Tcheka, the Comintern, and remains the same...
...brought food to the city. She could not understand their sense of values. They were indifferent to costly articles, but gave her a week's supply of food for an old leather album of her family's photographs. After her escape to England, she wrote a historical novel, Young Catherine, a biography of Hadrian, The English Pope, a study, The Catholic Church in Russia, and her moving autobiography that won the $5,000 Little, Brown nonfiction prize...
...stories are simple, sometimes only a few paragraphs of cadenced prose. Their taste is bitterer than that of her novels. An Unwritten Novel, with its anguished account of a nervous, twitching, staring woman visiting her plump, patronizing sister-in-law, whose children stop eating to watch her tremors, is a harsh story for anyone to have written, incredibly harsh for Virginia Woolf. More characteristic is the mood of The Lady in the Looking-Glass, with its picture of a house in mid summer: "The room that afternoon was full of such shy creatures, lights and shadows, curtains blowing, petals falling...