Volume 21, Number 19 · November 28, 1974
Happy Endings
By Alison Lurie
Waiting for the Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett
by Ann Thwaite
Scribner's, 274 pp., $10.00
A few writers produce what American businessmen call 'consumer durables.' Their works, like a house or a silver teapot or a Grecian urn, will last a lifetime and often longer. Other authors, the great majority, manufacture 'soft goods'—sometimes highly profitable, but hastily and flimsily made, intended to be used up and thrown out. They may be courted by publishers and booksellers, and receive a lot of fan mail, but after their deaths, or even sooner, they are forgotten. They are not mentioned in biographical dictionaries, and their, books molder unread in the spare bedrooms of country cottages.
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