Word: rosamund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West's posthumous career, smoothly bridging past and future. The novel is a sequel to The Fountain Overflows (1956), the chronicle of a shabby-genteel family in turn-of-the-century London. A third volume, to be published later, will complete the trilogy West planned to call Cousin Rosamund: A Saga of the Century. The subtitle radiates the same kind of old-fashioned hubris that led Wells to write The Outline of History; the continuation of West's saga shows how thoroughly her grasp matched her reach...
...narrator, says, that "to play an instrument badly was as shameful as any crime short of murder." Rose and her twin sister Mary practice the piano daily and dream of their futures on concert stages across Europe. The precocious little brother, Richard Quin, grows more charming, while Cousin Rosamund, withdrawn and beautiful, becomes effectively a member of this fatherless family...