Word: vious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prolific Mother. At 50, with no pre vious experience, she began to pour out volume after volume of remunerative fiction and travelogue. Most of the characters she introduced were old friends and acquaintances: "Of course," she said airily, "I always pulp (them) before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage." This was no consolation to the American public, which foamed at the sprightly invective and caricature in Mrs. Trollope's first book, Domestic Man ners of the Americans. The book was a financial success, but not sufficiently so to relieve the author...