Word: rowena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brooklyn Heights. There he learned the factual prototypes and stimuli for the Rampole episode: he had been rescued five years before by a scientific expedition searching Megatheria, he had been pet lunatic to an elderly psychiatrist, he had been loved and cured by the damsel Rowena. Blettsworthy promptly accepted these facts, married Rowena, went to (World) War, came back crippled, and resumed a civilized life. But his outlook was tinged, his cynicism sharpened, by his intimate experience of savagery...
...public eye, while the major figures in the world's history appeared and disappeared in the background. Yet there is more historical truth, more conviction, more delineation of character in Louis XI's treatment of Pierre Gringoire and in the Black Knight's actions in the lists below Rowena than in Buckingham's entire intrigue with Anne of Austria as set forth in twenty-four pages of Mr. Sabatini's accurate, documented, though colorless narrative...