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Identifier: williamdemorgan00stir (find matches)
Title: William De Morgan and his wife
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Stirling, A. M. W. (Anna Maria Wilhelmina)
Subjects: De Morgan, William Frend, 1839-1917 De Morgan, Mrs. (Evelyn) De Morgan family
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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vel. The subsequent progress of the work is marked by a seriesof running comments also addressed by the author to the pub-Hsher. August 5th. I am just grinding out the pages of this d—d story. August 10th. If brought out as two books it can run thus :The Twins of Darenth Mill.Vol. I. A Shortage of Mud.Vol. II. When Ghost meets Ghost. By doing this we shall avoid the odd titles as the current descriptionof the book, and yet it will, to my thought, benefit by their rumness.They are strictly in order, as the whole evolution of things turns on thatdollop of clay in the second chapter, and the purpose of the book, if any,turns on the resemblance of the two old ladies to a pair of chance Cimerians,old acquaintances on this side cf Styx, who turn up on tother. I well weighed your suggestion of removing the Pellews, but found * The love-affairs of the Hon. Percy Pellew and Miss Smith-Dickensenattain a plane of high comedy worthy of George Meredith at his best.—Criticism in The Times, mmS^
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Helen of Tuoy Was this llie face that lauiKlicd a Ihousaiul shipsAnd burnt the topmost towers of Ilium ?Pdiiiird //.I/ EvcUiu I)c Moffinn in 1898. (/)) the posKvssion of Mrs. Stirlitif). UNLIKELY STORIES AND GHOSTS 345 the task of doing so would be too stifE for me. It intersects far more thanappears on the surface. My wife likes the contrast of the two courtships—the respectable-tentative and the headlong-decisive one, and says shewould have had a divorce if I had drasticated it. August 22nd. Come to dinner I It would give my wife the oppor-tunity of showing the courage of her opinions that that blessed book ofmine wont bear spUtting. Sept. ^rd. I am horribly penitent for a big blunder. Mea Culpa !Some of the chapters were improperly numbered ! The eSect was thatyou read Chapter 20 three chapters too soon. That is to say, Pellew carriedthe old woman upstairs three chapters before the accident which incapacitatedher. Perfectly fatal, I should say. Lor bless you ! my memory isnt wort

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