Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VICTORIAN CHAISE LOMGUE (119 pp.)-Marghanlfa Laski-Houqhton Mifflin...
British book reviewers are immune to the virus of British understatement. When Marghanita Laski's The Victorian Chaise Longue was published in London six months ago, the Manchester Guadian hailed it as showing "almost ferocious power." Said Time and Tide: "[Miss Laski] stacked every card against herself to make her final really-grand slam more miraculous...
...British fans notwithstanding, Author Laski (a niece of the Labor Party's late Grey Eminence. Harold Laski) bids and makes no slams in The Victorian Chaise Longue, only a. quiet rubber game. She deals out a tidy horror story with a psychological flavoring of Jekyll & Hyde...
...child-like wife of a rising lawyer in present-day London, the doting mother of an infant son and a happy patient who has just been told that the worst is over in her seven-month siege of TB. Pleasantly contemplating a happy future, she falls asleep on a Victorian chaise longue, a cherished trophy from an antique-buying safari. She wakes up neither in her drawing room nor in her century nor in her own body...
...Victoria & Albert last week (it will run through the end of 1954), Queen Mary would have had little to quibble about. Most of it was arranged just as she had displayed it herself. The result was an entrancing glimpse into the royal attic of the last Great Victorian of the British royal family. As one visitor wrote in the weekly Time and Tide: "I felt as though I had strayed into the Paradise of All Good Children, to enjoy on a perpetual Sunday afternoon the exquisite and unlimited treasures of some celestial Grandmother...