Word: sidgwick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHEN I GROW RICH - Ethel Sidgwick - Harpers...
Occasionally the name of Author Sidgwick is mentioned in this country, only to be vaguely connected with the best-selling novelist Sedgwick (with an "e"), and dismissed. Some few, however, cherish an entire shelf of first editions by her with an "i," thus reflecting the wide popularity Mrs. Sidgwick holds in England. Closely related to the Bensons (A. C. and E. F.), she belongs to a literary tradition of quiet humor, leisurely manner (461 close-packed pages to the present volume, the average modern novel boasting some leaded 300). Her particular knack is to vivify a biggish assortment of characters...
TIME is so good that perfection comes to be demanded! Hence this comment upon "one Mrs. Henry Sedgwick" (issue of Feb. 23, page 17). You refer to Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, widow of Henry Sidgwick, the famous English philosopher, sister of A. J. Balfour (now the Earl of Balfour), principal of Girton College, Cambridge, till 1910. She is probably the most experienced member of the Society for Psychical Research, a purely scientific organization with which she lias been intimately connected since its inception. Aside from her connections, she is, by right of her own achievement, among the most eminent of living...