Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Elinor Sutherland Glyn, 78, the sex novel's impeccable grandmother; in London. At 27, red-haired Elinor Sutherland attracted longtime bachelor and coupon-clipper Clayton Glyn with her wasp waist, green eyes, and the social splash she made when four white-tied suitors leaped into a lake at her command. In 1892 (she claimed) he hired Brighton's swimming baths for their exclusive honeymoon use. In Three Weeks (1907) she revealed the effects on each other of a Swiss hotel, a Russian enchantress, a clean young Englishman, and a tigerskin rug. In Hollywood in 1927 she modernized...
...Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn's richly human first novel about a Welsh mining family, sold over 375,000 copies in the U.S. The movie made from it was voted the best picture of 1941. None But the Lonely Heart is utterly unlike that first success. It is a stream-of consciousness novel about two feverish weeks in the life of a 19-year-old London cockney. It was written while Llewellyn was serving in the British Army in Africa...
...novel has nothing to do with the war. The action occurs in the mid-1930s, though the exact period is obscure...
...imitated Negro entertainers. As early as 1769, during a Manhattan performance of Isaac Bickerstaff's comic opera The Padlock, an actor named Lewis Hallam got drunk on the stage in his role of a Negro slave and brought the house down. This eventually led to "the novel, grotesque, original and surpassingly melodious Ethiopian Band entitled the Virginia Minstrels...
...novel: Equinox (Allan Seager; Simon & Schuster; $2.75). The theme: platonic psychological incest...