Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-07 | Page 4 | Why Women Dominate Literary Scene Today

Why Women Dominate Literary Scene T Today o ay The predominance of ot women omen writers in modern literature be beleve believes believes be- be leve Rebecca Rebecca West rest the English novelist and critic Is due duo not so 20 much much to w womans woman's mans man's recent rise in all al I fields felds of ot endeavor as a to the fact that those young oung men nien of ot ten years carB ago who were not killed were spiritually spin spir exhausted by the war ar But she sees indications of ot a readjustment readjust readjust- ment merit as n tho the still sun younger generation genera genera- generation gener- gener tion ton comes into its ita It won This was as brought home to me methe methe methe the other ther day when I read Evelyn Waughs Waugh's Decline and Fall Fal which seems t to me mo to be ono one of ot the really funny books of ot the tho century and nd in reading that dazzling exhibition of scholarship and enthusiasm Robert Byrons Byron's The Byzantine Achievement Achievement Achieve Achieve- ment writes ites Miss Mss West In the Bookman for tor J July ly Both Mr Ir Waugh and Mr Byron arc are under 25 25 in fact Ja had they committed the indiscretion of ot being born ten years ears earlier earler the they would wold probably be ly lying 13 J- J Ins ing dead in the mud somewhere II In Fance France ard and these book would not b be e