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...strength in Tony's character. Unlike most lengthy British character studies, the novel does not report the rigors of Tony's adolescent schooldays. He appears to have sprung full-born into a family in which the father deified Darwinian Science while the mother deified Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In the midst of all the Edwardian amenities of an upperclass household, Tony came to the conclusion that neither his father nor mother was totally right or wrong, "but if you went to life with all your senses open, with your body as well as your mind, with your own fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Softer Answers | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...WIFE OF ROSSETTI-Violet Hunt-Dutton ($4). The tragic story of Rossetti's "Blessed Damozel" and the Pre-Raphaelite group, by one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Week | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...Waugh married another Evelyn, daughter of Lady Burghclere, was divorced two years later. He loves to travel, once gave it as his opinion that only two good travel books had ever been written: one of them The Acts of the Apostles; he intended to write the third. Other books: Rossetti: A Critical Biography, Decline & Fall, Vile Bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mischief Maker | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...Buchanan, Rossetti, Swinburne Quarrel," Professor Rollins, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/4/1932 | See Source »

...Harvard Debating Council are in striking contrast to the plentiful means of the Oxford equivalent. The physical equipment of the Oxford Union has no counterpart here. The Library of the English society is considerably larger than that in Eliot House. The walls are covered with murals by Rossetti, and other rooms in the spacious buildings are decorated on the same scale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swigert Discusses Character, Progress of Debating in Oxford Union Society | 12/4/1931 | See Source »

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