Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Power of the Pen. In Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Julia Gideon Whaley was granted a divorce after she showed the court a postcard addressed to her on which her husband had written a little verse...
...original Dr. Gubbins. ace quack of Fleet Street. Here are two of his replies to readers with just enough strength to hold a pen...
American history (and legend) had begun. Few Americans, of course, had the wit to recognize it in the making. Yet here & there a quick eye, a sharp ear and a busy pen took note of the rich, small doings of 17th Century American life. These early histories, diaries, memoirs and letters, vivid scribbles on the cuff of history, have mostly been suppressed into the dreary, quoteless grey of the professional historian's page. America Begins gives a glimpse of the real wonderland behind that dingy looking glass...
Letters to Posterity. In the sense of producing stories or poetry, Jane Carlyle was no "writing woman." But to posterity she bequeathed a host of letters in which her life and times are portrayed as brilliantly as if her pen had been dipped (as her proud husband put it) in "grains as of gold." She achieved this perfection of correspondence while suffering from periodic bouts of sleeplessness, racking headaches, and the cares of looking after dour, excessively difficult Thomas-a combination of circumstances that at one period brought her to the very verge of lunacy...
...Large Elderly Men." This new selection of Jane's letters not only sketches such tender, mocking pen portraits of husband Carlyle. Through Jane's matchless eyes, latter-day readers can also watch such scenes as Dickens marvelously playing the role of conjurer at a children's party, or Tennyson taking Jane's hand and "forgetting to let it go again," while murmuring in the trancelike voice of a lotus-eater: "I know that I know you, but I cannot tell your name...