Word: winwar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIFE OF THE HEART-Frances Winwar-Harper...
...also the world's most talked-about feminist. No woman writer since Sappho had made such an impression on her male contemporaries, or left in her wake such a tumult of debate. The public had heard her called everything from whore to angel. Now Biographer Frances Winwar (who changed her own name from Vinciguerra) has retold the story of George Sand with a tenderness, knowledge and enthusiasm that are likely to stir up the old debate and make The Life of the Heart a bestseller...
...outlive her lover by 27 years-years of feverish activity in politics and writing. Just as she had captured her own generation as romantic and lover, she thrilled a new generation as radical and feminist. Author Winwar, who is something of a radical and a feminist herself, sees in this change of emphasis George Sand's splendid transition from the life of self to the life of "common humanity." Most readers may prefer the calmer summing-up of Novelist Henry James: "There is something very liberal and universal in George Sand's genius, as well as very masculine...
...Interviewed by newsmen, Dr. Grebanier's wife, Novelist Frances Winwar, revealed that she became so annoyed with her husband's visitors ("very disagreeable people") that she took a separate apartment on the floor below...
Revealing of Wilde's character is Biographer Winwar's picture of the sun-flower-&-lily school he dramatized, the arch-esthete contemporaries he cultivated and admired-Painter Jimmie Whistler, who hammered home the theory that art has no morals and trained Wilde in the most cynical wit of the century; Ernest Dowson, hashish-smoking, tuberculous poet who died young in the gutter after writing Cynara, a poetic rosary for disillusioned young men; Artist Aubrey Beardsley, spidery, sardonic, tuberculous genius, called "the most monstrous of orchids" by Wilde; French Novelist Huysmans, who carried decadent experiments in subtle sensations...