One of my greatest pleasures recently has been discovering the writing of Dawn Powell.

I've just finished her 1942 novel "A Time To Be Born", which combines both her first hand understanding of the journalistic and literary New York of her time with a midwesterner's skeptical amusement at metropolitan self advancement and snobbery.

The novel also provides insights into American women's distinctive struggles with ambition, competition, and love in the opening years of the Second World War.

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https://marissavivian.substack.com/p/hidden-voices-004-dawn-powell

What a delight it was to read Dawn Powell's 1936 "Turn, Magic Wheel", in which urbane literary satire intertwines with an acute account of the deceptions and self-deceptions of love and marriage!

I found Powell's wit and style especially refreshing after having recently waded through the self important verbosity of Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel".

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