Word: exactress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winifred Ashton) has not only written best-selling novels (Broome Stages, The Babyons), successful plays (Bill of Divorcement, Will Shakespeare), detective stories and movie scenarios, but at the same time she has pleased the critics. Her critical reputation is largely due to the actress-like ease (she is an exactress) with which she imitates other writers...
Slowly, tediously is passing Cosima Wagner, once the high-handed daughter of Composer Franz Liszt, once the wife of Composer Hans von Bulow. It was while married to von Bulow that she met Richard Wagner, himself married to an exactress, Minna Planer. Minna had shared Wagner's poverty, put up with his adulteries, including the Mathilde Wesendonck affair which supposedly inspired Tristan und Isolde. But Wagner left Minna to live with Cosima, 25 years his junior. She bore him three children-before he married her, took her to live at the Villa Wahnfried provided at Bayreuth by Mad King...