![]() ![]() ![]() To see a fine ladyNorah Lofts, The Parallax From Hell: Satans Critique of. and gave her career a boost she eventually wrote more than fifty books, specializing in historical fiction and (under a pseudonym) mystery novels. God is Not: A Realistic View on Belief in Gods and ReligionsHugh White. According to the jacket blurb, in her early life she "fled to her teacher, a woman who had been kind to her and had taught her the magic of books and the beauty of nature" - which sounds nice, but apparently becomes a source of her later unhappiness, as a result of having been educated "above her station." (This relationship with the teacher may also signal a lesbian angle, as everybody knows that lesbians in novels of the period were inevitably sensitive and miserable.) An early book by Lofts, her second novel following a story collection, "I Met a Gypsy," which won a National Book Award in the U.S. Then came a charming fictionized biography of Raleigh, Here Was A Man. Full disclosure and spoiler alert: I haven't read it, but my research tells me it ends badly for our heroine, who has a miserable life, eventually contracting tuberculosis and committing suicide. Last year, Norah Lofts won the American Booksellers' Award for the Forgotten book with her exquisite fantasy romance, I Met A Gypsy. ![]() "The touching story of a young English girl who fought bravely to rise above her environment," and from all accounts a real downer. Illustrated by (dj) "Quill" (illustrator). ![]()
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