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...cave "because he had observed women closely all his life." Cather was also a prude. We are not told Marian Forrester drinks a little but merely get "the sharp odor of spirits." In My Antonia, the local lecher is obliquely indicated by the comment that he set a former housemaid up "in the business for which he had trained...
...toward the unpleasant Krafft-Ebing revelation concealed behind that coy yellow band. In the denouement there are traces both of Psycho and the Roger Ackroyd device: Are you sure you should trust the narrator? But Ellin conceals his key surprise in a phonetic note written by a distracted Mexican housemaid: Noscool sonic comic loc. Work that out and the solution may fall into place. Since the note appears on page 21, well before the band, Random House is jeopardizing its petty-cash supply. ·Jay Cocks
Died. Violette Leduc, 65, French novelist, best known for her candid autobiography, La Bâtarde (The Bastard); of cancer; in Faucon, France. The unlovely, illegitimate daughter of a housemaid, Leduc was a black marketeer during World War II; later she was encouraged in a literary career by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and Simone de Beauvoir. Leduc's first novels attracted only limited attention; La Bâtarde, with its explicit accounts of her gnawing loneliness and bisexual experimentation, brought her notoriety and financial success...
...Wells did not begin at all ebulliently. He was, in Dickson's words, "a rather sickly young man from the lower class," the son of a housemaid and a failed shopkeeper. After failing himself as a draper's assistant, Wells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in South Kensington, where Thomas Huxley was teaching biology at the time. It was Huxley who first excited Wells' interest in science. But young Wells' omnivorous curiosity-always subject to other intellectual temptations -was diverted into Fabian socialism, literature and debating. Putting more and more time into...
...Edmund seemed to think only that the housemaid was indelicate in her expression, and extravagant in her desire. Perhaps she was among the prophets. (The Rev.) ERNEST MARSHALL-HOWSE Toronto...