Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, May Yohe Hope Strong Smuts, 69, Victorian actress who knew most of the rich dandies of two continents; of arterial sclerotic heart disease and chronic vascular nephritis; in Boston, Mass. In 1894, tempestuous May Yohe, then London star of Little Christopher Columbus, married Lord Francis Hope, who gave her the famed diamond now owned by Evalyn Walsh MacLean. She wore it only twice in eight years before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted...
Died. Owen Wister, 78, prolific author, grandson of the late great Victorian Actress Fanny Kemble, friend and biographer of Roosevelt I; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in North Kingstown, R. I. His most famed novel The Virginian (1902), was the product of a western rest cure, sold 1,500,000 copies, gave birth to the phrase: "When you call me that, smile...
...marry a wealthy Georgia plantation owner named Pierce Butler. No Southern writer has ever said a good word for Fanny Kemble. But last week, in Davison-Paxon's book department in Atlanta, Ga., Margaret Armstrong's Fanny Kemble, a sympathetic and excellent biography of this colorful Victorian, outsold all other titles. Elsewhere it crowded the leading non-fiction best-seller The Importance of Living, and with other serious books selling widely, contradicted the theory that summer readers go in for only light fiction. That they buy fewer books, however, was clearly indicated by U. S. booksellers' figures...
Result of such mid-Victorian restrictions and the finishing schools' training, says Miss Ogden, is that their graduates: 1) become too much interested in men, 2) overemphasize their own importance, 3) become class-conscious, 4) know very little about the world. Farmington's most famed alumna is Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow...
Latest addition to the growing evidence of bootleg Victorian unconventionally is Margaret Armstrong's story of Fanny Kemble, to whom Novelist Henry James, her close friend, paid this tribute: "She was one of the rarest of women. . . . She reanimated the old drawing-rooms, relighted the old lamps, retuned the old pianos. . . . An extraordinary mixture of incongruous things, of England and France in her blood, of America and England in her relationships, of the footlights and the glaciers in her activities, of conformity and contumacy in her character and tragedy and comedy in her talk...