| |
| |
Rosamond Lehmann |
 | | This Rosamond, whom I, too, knew, was lamentably unfitted to cope even with the commonplace batterings of time and chance, let alone with a serious blow, and her insatiable demands upon family, friends and lovers did not make them love her more. |
 | | Inevitably, by the time Rosamond was a large and over-made-up 60-year-old, men prepared to supply the injection were few on the ground, but this she ignored, claiming non-existent passions in others' breasts and creating, by her genuine hospitality, the illusion of being sought-after. |
 | | Rosamond Lehmann, whose life spanned almost the whole century (1901-1990) was one of the first to take full advantage of this freedom, and the best of her novels (Dusty Answer, Invitation to the Waltz, The Weather in the Streets) made a real contribution to the genre. |
| www.arlindo-correia.com /060902.html (2836 words) |
|