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francis muir wrote:
 > is proving quite enthralling. Very Somervillian. Quite severe on all her
 > characters.

more so than Ivy C-B?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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smw wrote:

 > francis muir wrote:

  >> is proving quite enthralling. Very Somervillian.
  >> Quite severe on all her characters.
 >
 > more so than Ivy C-B?

Oh yes. The Russian émigré communities in Malta first and
then in England take a major hit as do all of the Englishmen
and particularly the Englishwomen who are creepily loathesome.
Perhaps the only character in whom the author finds any sympathy
- but clearly no-one else does - is Abrahamowich - the Jew of
Malta. He of course sees the Russians for just who they are but
cannot escape the clutches of one of the most dreadful hags.

The author herself was born in St. Petersburg and managed to
get to England via Finland and Sweden in 1918 when she was 12
years old so she knows those of whom she speaks.

I am now convinced that HH read Kit Marlowe's masterpiece first
- perhaps it was a set book - and then saw a novel come out of it.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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