Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RACHEL WEEPING (213 pp.)-Shelley Smith-Harper...
...hardest of all literary doors to force is the one that leads into the world of childhood. It is only fitting that the latest writer to try it is a mystery novelist. Shelley Smith's U.S. publisher is devoted to keeping her identity a mystery. But Mrs. Nancy Bodington does not mind identifying herself. She is a lady in her 40s who has used the pseudonym Shelley Smith for "mysteries because she wanted to save her real name for "the kind of books I wanted to write, such as Rachel Weeping." On the strength of this book, the more...
...Author Shelley Smith has a peculiar difficulty in her first serious book. She writes so easily that she may not be taken seriously. But her three stories will trouble any adult who can remember the major agonies of childhood, any parent who has ever been guilty of inflicting or ignoring them...
...longer works, a trial of Proust and a poem on the death of Shelley, further attest to the new zest for vitality in form. They are impressive in both length and language, but that very length is discouraging to the harried scholar and the springtime esoteric. They were written by an engineer and a naval aviator...
...HELEN SHELLEY New York City...