[PW] Anachronisms

[Katherine Harper]

The closest equivalent at the time would have been the wildly popular
"Beatrice Fairfax" at the New York _Evening Journal_...though even she
didn't premiere until 1898. There's a good American Heritage article about
the Fairfax phenomenon at
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1992/3/1992_3_90.shtml.

Kathy Harper


On Jan 14, 2008 10:11 AM, Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.) <
tfuller at deloitte.com> wrote:


> Question 1:  As far as I can tell, Miss Lonelyhearts was the creation of
> Nathanael West in his 1933 novel, and is therefore totally out of the
> picture in 1894.  Anybody have anything to the contrary?
>



-- 
Katherine Harper, Ph.D.
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