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Readers may wish for a literary Mrs. Timson who would stop novels of this kind from coming into the world...
...BELL TIMSON (373 pp.)-Marguerite Steen-Doubleday...
...mind stepping this way . . . Mrs. Timson?" said the man who opened the door. He escorted her through a series of splendid rooms in which the furniture was embellished with the coronet of English nobility. At last Mrs. Timson came to a bedroom and saw, propped in a superb bed, a woman whose face was known to every reader of high-society news. Soon after, Mrs. Timson left the aristocratic mansion as discreetly as she had come-but with a fee of ?400 nestling in her purse...
...Timson is an abortionist. She is also the heroine of Marguerite Steen's successor to her best-selling The Sun Is My Undoing (TIME, Aug. 18, 1941). Author Steen's Mrs. Timson is as "healthy, earthy" as "an Elizabethan innkeeper's wife." She becomes an abortionist only when she realizes that it is the best way to give her own two children a good start in life. (She never tells them about her profession; they think it is real estate...
Abortion goes swimmingly for 20 years-until one of Mrs. Timson's own beloved daughters announces that she is illegitimately pregnant. In Mrs. Timson "rage . . . fluttered wildly, like a bluebottle fly." She reflects: "God is punishing me. But why? I've done no wrong. . . . We'd got to live." When her weeping daughter says she thinks abortion would be the best way out, Mrs. Timson will not hear of it. "Perhaps it will be a boy," she cries ecstatically...