Word: suetonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Meeker's credit he handles these somewhat Suetonian materials not only without playing them up for the salacious trade, but so firmly that they become a social and human document, richly textured with quotidian details of housekeeping, matchmaking, small-talk and general upper-class living. Even the glimpses of Court, of battle, of provincial life, have little of the quality of set pieces, much of the taste of immediacy. Few historical novels do as much...
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