Word: unread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cover. Her father recovered; Selma struggled on and one day her uncle discovered her poring over the Book of Revelation under a gooseberry bush. Her uncle reported to her parents, and when she overheard them making light of her simple-mindedness she left the last few pages forever unread. Selma's governess broke the news to her gently that she was an unremarkable child, but Selma's hopes of some day becoming a writer were not dashed. She said to herself: "Perhaps I can become a writer if it depends only on the will and not on talent...
Jennifer, like Ishbel MacDonald, was stocky, well-scrubbed, healthy, plain. Like Ishbel, Jennifer had a Famous Father, whose daily lookout she was, with no watches shared. Father, widowered and only-daughtered, was a famed novelist whose books were appreciated by the few, unread by the many, abhorred by the clergy. Jennifer and Father lived in London as in a sheltered treadmill: she ran the house, took his dictation, typed his manuscripts, chased from the quiet street the occasional catastrophe of an organ-grinder. Suddenly one day Father brought home a pretty young wife, several years younger than Jennifer. With...