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...knows it, she is raising hob with the punctilio of three levels of snobbery-the aristocratic, the backstairs (Sara Allgood et al.) and, deadliest of all, the lower middle class. A tyrannical druggist (Richard Haydn) woos her with selections on the parlor organ; his phlegm-racked, fearsome little mother (Una O'Connor) believes her unworthy. Cluny's guardian angel throughout her tribulations is a prewar anti-Nazi refugee (Charles Boyer), who finds it equally impossible to persuade liberal English friends that he won't be assassinated at any moment, and to persuade tories that England has anything...
CHARLES DICKENS (488 pp.)-Dame Una Pope-Hennessy-Howell, Soskin...
...author of the latest and most comprehensive-but by no means the best written or most imaginative-Dickens biography, Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, is the first biographer to make use of the mass of Nonesuch and other new material. Readers will find no trace of literary judgment, but they will find every last detail of Dickens' stormy life, from crib to coffin...
...children, suffered four miscarriages. But Dickens' attitude toward pregnancy and childbirth was "outwardly unsympathetic and often that of a low comedian." "My wife," Dickens informed a friend, "has presented me with No. 10. I think I could have dispensed with the compliment." "He seemed to think," Dame Una explains, "that she alone was responsible...
...best story in Dame Una's book is about Dickens' temporary obsession with hypnotism. After successfully putting his own not-very-wide-awake wife to sleep, Dickens felt the need to try his hypnotic power on the spry wife of a Swiss banker. When in bed, this attractive, possibly neurotic lady was in the habit of rolling up into a tight ball between one and two a.m. Mrs. Dickens resented the fact that only the "strokings and passes" of Hypnotist Dickens could induce her to unwind...