Word: tiverton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This anonymous author, probably a woman, whose almost supernatural gift for intuitive writing was responsible for 'Miss Tiverton Goes Out,' has produced a significant psychological study. The importance of the book dwells in the amazing quality which the author has for under-standing and analyzing human* conflict, subconscious reaction...
...Miss Tiverton Goes...
THIS DAY'S MADNESS ? Anonymous?Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). The author of Miss Tiverton Goes Out still wishes to remain anonymous. Her critics still fatten their admiration upon their curiosity. Critic William Lyon Phelps, politely rebuffed by her publishers, went ahunting "this superior intelligence" by himself, and discovered its identity. But lo! when he came to divulge her name, it had escaped him. Said he: "A name totally unknown to English and American letters. It might have been Miss Abercrombie or, for that matter, Miss Fitch...
Until Dr. Phelps's memory mends, "Miss Tiverton" will serve. The lady's second offering fully merits the company of her first. Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish. Motherless Letty Monckton is a British country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will...
...certainly a woman who wrote "Miss Tiverton Goes Out." The other women, Juliet's mother, her sister Angela, and Margaret are so completely done: and so entirely different one from the next. But then, the men are equally good...