Word: yorkshirewoman
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...seven stories of her new book, Yorkshirewoman Bentley brings off a considerable literary feat by exploring her region in time: the first story is set in 1350, the last in 1950. Place names echo and re-echo-Annotsfield, Whindale, the Ire Valley-as do the names of people: Brigg, Egmont, Resmond. Novelist Bentley succeeds in showing, as she sets out to do, that Yorkshire's West Ridinghood is persistent in the character of the tykes -whether they wield bows, shuttles or hymnbooks...
Married. Peggy Scriven, jaunty, snub-nosed Yorkshirewoman who played on two of England's Wightman Cup tennis teams; and Frank Harvey Vivian, R. A. F. officer; in London...