POSER FOR NOVELISTS
“ Why is it that no novelist of the present era seems able to create character that become household words?” The question was put by Mrs Phillip Champion de Crespigny recently, says a writer in the Liverpool Post. By household words in this connection Mrs de Crespigny means such characters as Mr Micawber, Becky Sharp, Sherlock Holmes, Peter Pan. She says she has talked to all sorts and conditions of people, including the very humblest, and found that they knef about those favourites of fiction who have become so real to the Eng-lish-speaking world. There has not, she avers, been created in fiction during the twentieth century a character that stands out so that we associate certain qualities with it in our 'thoughts. She is probably right.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 7
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129POSER FOR NOVELISTS Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 7
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