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MARGERY FISHER

Honor Arundel's neat patterns of family life are coolly perceptive and make their point by indicating emotion rather than rousing it. She makes no pretence of joining the young. She is looking at them, with a good deal of understanding, and inviting them to take a dispassionate look at themselves. Her gift for fixing character through class idiom and class behaviour is seen at its best in [The girl in the opposite bed], in which Jane from a protected middle-class home and Jeannie from the other side of the sticks meet willy-nilly in a hospital ward…. Neither girl is 'changed' by the week or two they spend in opposite beds. Honor Arundel is too wise to suggest anything so unlikely. She allows Jane the amount of sense and sympathy one might expect her to feel; she suggests (only suggests) that the death of dear old Mrs. Wood has helped the girl to be less self-absorbed. Then she sends her back to her comfortable home with a slightly better...

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1. Introduction
2. Robert Bell
3. Polly Goodwin
4. S. L. Blanford
5. Linda Crowe
6. Zena Sutherland
7. Mrs. J. M. Murphy
8. Margery Fisher
9. Mrs. J. Aldridge
10. Margery Fisher
11. Julia G. Russell
12. Judith Aldridge
13. John W. Conner
14. Nicholas Tucker
15. John W. Conner
16. Margery Fisher
17. Celia Boyd
18. Judith Aldridge
19. Vivienne Furlong
20. J. Russell
21. John Rowe Townsend
22. Eleanore Braun Luckey
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