Word: stewart
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WHAT would you call a woman who drinks beer, drives a locomotive, or walks a lion on a leash down the street in Boston? Liberated? Pretentious? Health nut? Isabella Stewart Gardner did all these things in Boston in the 1890's; she was cheered, jeered, envied and snubbed. This unusual woman viewed the streets of Cambridge and Boston as canals leading to her inside-out, quasi-Venetian palace just across from the Museum of Fine Arts, on the Fens of Boston. With a mere handkerchief she outbid Europe for a Vermeer, and with her husband's shipping fortune she bought...
After the house, the general setting is vital. Anywhere in Wales or Cornwall will do, and there is choice literary real estate in Scotland and Ireland. The trend, though, is toward more exotic places. Mary Stewart has been to Greece, Austria and Lebanon in search of fresh landscape. Even Victoria Holt, who built her career on familiarity with English history, has packed her bags; her next book will be set in Australia. Phyllis Whitney is just back from Norway with practical advice about scouting locales: "Islands are easy. You do your homework before going and get introductions from people like...
...Mary Stewart, nee Rainbow, 54, is a vicar's daughter from Durham in the rugged northeast of England, who had enough narrative knack by boarding-school age to keep the other girls awake telling stories for hours after lights-out. She is the brisk, jolly image of a faculty wife; her husband is head of the geology department at Edinburgh University. In 1950, having learned she could not have children, she sat down with some foolscap on the table and Wuthering Heights in her head and began writing novels. Says she: "I probably would never have written them...
...Indeed, one of the real mysteries that surrounds the genre is what the authors do with incomes that can run well into six figures annually. They all feel their writing matters, and few are willing to admit they write formula fiction, let alone "women's novels." Says Mary Stewart: "I cannot read what you would call a woman writer." Speaking of critical neglect, Norah Lofts says, "I feel neglected, I feel infuriated, I feel resigned-sometimes all at once. I just think it's very wrong because it may deprive some people of the joy that a good...
Jeff Brokaw took second place in the three-mile. He was nipped by LSU's John Stewart who won in 13:59.6. Brokaw ran 14:01. Both McCurdy and Stowell said they were pleased with Brokaw's performance in the event which is seldom...