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...GENERAL'S WENCH (244 pp.) - Rosamond Marshall - Prentice-Hall...
...much of The General's Wench is devoted to bedroom doings that it easily gives the impression of being just one more piece of execrably written pornography. It says on the jacket, however, that Rosamond (Kitty) Marshall's real intention is to portray "the fabulously rich 18th century days of the East India Company . . . one of the most stimulating periods in all history...
Robert Newton, chewing at all the scenery, seems to be having a wonderful time in the title role. Good decorative note: Linda Darnell as a fiery wench who flounces around Blackbeard's vessel in a series of stunning plunging necklines...
...cheap-jackery, and resolved to do better. He calmly decided, as he said, to "swallow" his time and spit it out again in a series of 20 long novels about the Rougon-Macquart, in which all the main characters were the legitimate and illegitimate descendants of one oversexed farm wench. For his series he invented a new ism, based on close, pessimistic observation of mankind, and called it Naturalism. But Zola no more believed in Naturalism than he did in God, Wilson concludes. The important thing was this: "I, I alone will be Naturalism...
Nell grew up in her mother's establishment, sweeping the fireplaces and "serving strong waters to the guests." At 13, she improved her station to that of an "orange wench," selling fruit in the theater pit. At 14, the chronicler reports, she was "eased of her virginity," probably by a famous actor, Charles Hart, who cast her in a small part...