Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecture this evening-at eight o'clock, in Sever 11-will be a discussion of Thackeray as a writer, mainly with regard to "Vanity Fair," "Pendennis," "The Newcomes," "Henry Esmond," "The Virginians," and "The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century...
...suffer the contempt with which her grandmother treated her mother, who was a common work-woman. Here we see in George Sand the first seed of revolt against social institutions. Secondly, she was unhappy in her marriage and it was to plead her cause that she first became a writer...
...Copeland's second lecture on Fielding-to be given in Sever 11, at eight o'clock this evening-will be mainly occupied with the three novels, "Tom Jones," "Amelia," and "Joseph Andrews," together with some consideration of Fielding as a writer of English...
...external nature is quite masterful; only when the story analyses powerful human emotion and its results, is unconvincingness approached. Then it tends either to exaggeration or melodrama. If R. P. Bellow's "The Hoaxing of Truesdale Bynner" is more facile and interesting, as literature it promises less for the writer's future. But both stories have an atmosphere of serious literary intention that the Advocate would do well to cultivate more...
...suggestion that wearing caps alone would answer the purpose is a good one, and is sure to meet with approval. There would be no inconvenience entailed, and it would, as the writer says, put every Senior for once in the position of being able to recognize all his class mates. If an order requiring caps to be furnished by the first of May is to be substituted for the present order, an immediate step is necessary, and therefore a meeting of the Senior class should be called as soon as possible to take action on the proposal...