Review Essay: "A Fine Romance"

[...]Margaret Millar was the more famous published novelist of the married couple until her husband's Lew Archer novels gained momentum in the 1950s. Millar's answer to things falling apart was to put himself in a series of boxes, structured systems with firm rules: academic performance in...

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Published in:Eudora Welty review 2016-04, Vol.8 (1), p.123-132
Main Author: Kreyling, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fitzgerald, F Scott (1896-1940)
Macdonald, Ross (1915-1983)
Review Essay & Interview
Romance languages
Welty, Eudora (1909-2001)
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Summary:[...]Margaret Millar was the more famous published novelist of the married couple until her husband's Lew Archer novels gained momentum in the 1950s. Millar's answer to things falling apart was to put himself in a series of boxes, structured systems with firm rules: academic performance in college, marriage, graduate school, a PhD, the US Navy, the detective novel genre. [...]the writing did not come, and she repeatedly complains of being too tired to write when she gets back home to Jackson. [...]Welty undertook the William E. Massey, Sr. The Iron Gates was her last published novel until the renaissance of her work in the 1970s, about which her husband writes with genuine relief and pride to Welty. 4 Millar's opinion of James and his novel shows that he got his PhD on the up-andup: "Milly Theale is a portrait of the artist as a dying young woman, but we never get to know what really killed her, or what killed or attenuated James' immense talent.
ISSN:1947-3370
2165-266X
2165-266X
DOI:10.1353/ewr.2016.0017