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Thus, the story of Henry Cope. 1803 hero of The Moon Is Feminine, a rich, dilettante bachelor with "quick" green eyes, narrow forehead, "Wertherish smile," is too brightly in the manner of Virginia Woolf to be missed by the dimmest-sighted reader. But Clemence Dane has her own transformer for cutting down Virginia Woolf's voltage to serve more popular tastes: the mood of her legend comes nearer to those melancholy romances which flourished in the 90s-dark young women floating beautifully dead in lily ponds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea Gypsy Legend | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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