Word: sheila
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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IRON AND SMOKE-Sheila Kaye-Smith -Dutton ($2.50). The emotion which Author Kaye-Smith understands most fully, hence describes better than any other, is the emotion which men feel for their land; the humble, genuine, particular patriotism of farmers, squires, men of the soil. In most of her previous books, she has studied this feeling as it colors the loves, hatreds, hungers of poor people. In Iron and Smoke, Humphrey Mallard, heir to a baronetcy, loves his houses better than Isabel Halnaker, the mistress he relinquishes so that, to save his estates, he may marry Jenny Bastow whose father owns...
...Significance. Hardy first planted the literary flag in the rural turf of England. Since then Sheila Kaye-Smith, T. F. Powys and many another have followed him. Doomsday, in Sussex, most resembles Miss Kaye-Smith's work...
...MUST-David Garnett-Knopf ($2.50). What shall befall the tall but beautiful, timid but intelligent daughter of a widowed vicar in a hamlet of the English fen country? Author T. F. Powys would surely bring her to harm through the primeval malice of some local lout. Sheila Kaye-Smith might supply her with a young gentleman and beset their true love with gossip and the father's disapproval. H. G. Wells would find her at least a temporary career; Arnold Bennett would describe her shoelaces and thoughts on dusting the stairs. Hugh Walpole might make her a sweet minor...
...Salem tells of those fearsome days in stern Massachusetts Colony in the year 1692, when religious fervor sometimes mounted to fanaticism, goaded honest people to the ugly business of hanging human beings suspected of witchcraft. (This was more really indigenous to American ancestry than plots about Indians or Creoles.)* Sheila Meloy (Irene Pavloska) to win the indifferent heart of Arnold Talbot (Charles Hackett), accuses the young man's Puritan sweetheart, Claris Willoughby (Eide Norena) of being possessed. Her evidence: a peculiar birthmark. At the very last minute, the little Irish girl repents, averts a cruel execution...
...will hear a lot about Sheila Kaye-Smith's Starbrace (Dutton). She wrote it some years ago while growing up to write The George and the Crown., Isle of Thorns, etc. It's about a lovable but deplorable young Midlands bucko back in England's border-war time, a good tale withal but not on the same counter with mature Kaye- Smithiana...