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SOUTHERN BELLE (407 pp.) - Mary Craig Sinclair-Crown...
Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, 74, is probably the only woman still living in the U.S. who can claim to have been described as "svelte" by Mrs. Jefferson Davis. Hers is a truly romantic as well as a wonderfully goofy story-the memoirs of a Southern belle who married a notorious radical. It is husband Upton Sinclair for whom the belle has now told all, and her revelations carry his strangely sentimental imprimatur ("My Southern belle remembers tenderly those dear dead days . . ."). The book, irresistible to students of U.S. life and manners, is the story of Mary's life with...
...went to Miss Finch's school in Manhattan, all sorts of things other than magnolia hung heavy in the air, notably suffragists, single-taxers and Socialists. It was a Red dead sea full of poor fish dreaming of a bookless future. The biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick of capitalism but leery of canned meat...
American Romantics. Mother Kimbrough met him at a Michigan health farm-he was devoted to shredded wheat -and she promptly decided that he was a gentleman "despite those clothes." He was not very tall, but his eyes were blue. Unhappily, he was married. Still, Mary and Sinclair developed an intellectual sort of friendship, and in his circle she began to meet Fascinating People. There was Anarchist Emma Goldman, who was apt to throw vases (filled) at her lover. There was Sinclair Lewis, who sort of absentmindedly squeezed Mary's knee under a Greenwich Village tablecloth. There was a young...
...time, she became not Sterling's but Upton Sinclair's goddess. After a messy divorce from his first wife, Sinclair married his belle in 1913. Mary Sinclair still regards it as a matter for wonder that a granddaughter of the Confederacy should have latched onto a radical like Upton. In this wonder lies the secret of the book's charm. She never seems to realize that the romanticism of early Socialism and that of the Old South were akin. However different the windmills they were tilting at, both Mary and Upton were American romantics. Besides, most social...