Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VICTORIAN IN THE MODERN WORLD-Hutchins Hapgood-Harcourt, Brace...
...Charles thinks their cousin, Fanny Cashel Hoey, was an impressive Victorian novelist. Bernard: "Fanny was a first-rate literary hack...
...Hudson" is a fine compound of history and legend by one of our best investigators of regional America. . . . Granville Bick's "Figures of Transition" is an intelligent and illuminating study of six English writers at the end of the last century whose work serves as a transition from the Victorian to the modern period in English literature. Mr. Hicks work is not doctrinaire and is thoroughly good . . . Joseph Wood Krutch's "The American Drama Since 1918," is a lively critical history of our drama since, approximately, Eugene O'Neill...
...high-vaulted, dark-paneled, Victorian-Gothic gloom of King's Bench Court No. 5 last week, heavily bewigged Honorable Mr. Justice Tucker opened in his kindly, dawdling fashion the most sensational trial London has seen since World War II broke: "Her Serene Highness Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst versus Viscount Rothermere...
...only a few famous works of fiction-the novels of Erckmann-Chatrian, the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm. But in the theatre, which is always the product of many hands, collaboration has long and royally flourished, producing such well-known partnerships as the Elizabethan Beaumont & Fletcher, the Victorian Gilbert & Sullivan, the contemporary Hecht & MacArthur...