December 15, 2025
Tag: Gertrude Lamson
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
Past Article
April 10, 2022 6 Comments
First (or opening) lines of a play, essay, or novel should have impact beyond all else. A first line should be memorable all the way to the period at the end of the last sentence. But, first lines will betray the writer’s emotions, state of mind, and their most immediate concern. Here are a few examples on postcards from long ago.