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December 28, 1918
The Seattle Star
Seattle, King County, Washington
What is this article about?
Profile of 87-year-old author Amelia E. Barr's enduring prolific career, from early attempts to 70+ books, affirming romance and creativity know no age limit; critiques slow fiction; notes Yale law school admitting women. (187 chars)
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No Age Limit for Romance
Romance knows no age limit!
Here's Amelia E. Barr at 87 writing a new novel!
Amelia tried to write at 12. She met Romance at 19 when she married Robert Barr in Scotland. At 40 she was producing novels at high speed.
In 37 years she has written 70 books of fiction and hundreds of short stories.
It's only a half-truth to say that the young are romantic.
Their elders are just as much so.
Why, pretty nearly every day you hear of men of 70 marrying girls of 50 or even younger!
There's a romantic streak in the most and the best of us.
The Americans are probably the greatest fiction-readers in the world.
Fiction feeds the romantic spirit—and feeds on it, too.
Yesterday's fiction doesn't satisfy today's taste, however.
We want speed in our novels nowadays. A meeting, a glance, a wedding! And sometimes a triangle and a divorce in the next chapter.
E. P. Roe's slow-moving stories now put us to sleep.
Amelia Barr more than proves that romance knows no age limit. She proves that you can go on working and thinking. You don't need to dry up and grouch in a corner!
Yale law school is opened to women. Perhaps a married professor has discovered woman's capacity for argument.
Romance knows no age limit!
Here's Amelia E. Barr at 87 writing a new novel!
Amelia tried to write at 12. She met Romance at 19 when she married Robert Barr in Scotland. At 40 she was producing novels at high speed.
In 37 years she has written 70 books of fiction and hundreds of short stories.
It's only a half-truth to say that the young are romantic.
Their elders are just as much so.
Why, pretty nearly every day you hear of men of 70 marrying girls of 50 or even younger!
There's a romantic streak in the most and the best of us.
The Americans are probably the greatest fiction-readers in the world.
Fiction feeds the romantic spirit—and feeds on it, too.
Yesterday's fiction doesn't satisfy today's taste, however.
We want speed in our novels nowadays. A meeting, a glance, a wedding! And sometimes a triangle and a divorce in the next chapter.
E. P. Roe's slow-moving stories now put us to sleep.
Amelia Barr more than proves that romance knows no age limit. She proves that you can go on working and thinking. You don't need to dry up and grouch in a corner!
Yale law school is opened to women. Perhaps a married professor has discovered woman's capacity for argument.
What sub-type of article is it?
Biography
Personal Triumph
Romance
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
Moral Virtue
Love
What keywords are associated?
Amelia Barr
Writing Career
Romance Age
Fiction Speed
Yale Women
What entities or persons were involved?
Amelia E. Barr
Robert Barr
E. P. Roe
Where did it happen?
Scotland
Story Details
Key Persons
Amelia E. Barr
Robert Barr
E. P. Roe
Location
Scotland
Event Date
At Age 87
Story Details
Amelia E. Barr began writing at 12, married at 19, produced novels rapidly from age 40, and at 87 continues writing her 71st book after 70 fiction books and hundreds of short stories in 37 years, illustrating that romance and creativity endure with age; modern fiction favors speed over slow narratives like E. P. Roe's; Yale law school opens to women.