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   Verily, in article <13sdR.899031$yE3b.455803@fx16.iad>, did   
   scott@slp53.sl.home deliver unto us this message:   
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   > The True Melissa  writes:   
   > >Verily, in article <10l5dta$kcs$1@panix2.panix.com>, did   
   > >kludge@panix.com deliver unto us this message:   
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   > >> Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   > >> >The True Melissa  writes:   
   > >> >>Verily, in article , did   
   > >> >>psperson@old.netcom.invalid deliver unto us this message:   
   > >> >>> Incidentally, in the eBook series where I catch up on previous read   
   > >> >>> authors, I found that /Farnham's Freehold/ is now available on Kindle.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>Farnham's Freehold is probably the weirdest Heinlein I ever read, though   
   > >> >>I haven't read them all. I recall being disappointed in the handling of   
   > >> >>Grace, the protagonist's wife.   
   > >> >   
   > >> >For someone who grew up in KC in the early 1900's, Grace would not   
   > >> >have been at all unusual, sadly.   
   > >>   
   > >> Yes, when I read Farnham's Freehold as a child, I thought it was a pretty   
   > >> good characterization of my mother and many of her friends.  Today it may   
   > >> not be believable but my mother would not be either.   
   > >   
   > >At one point, the protagonist tells the chippie^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnew love   
   > >interest that Grace seems crummy now but was great when they were first   
   > >married. There's a line something like "Grace has always been   
   > >magnificent under adversity. It was prosperity she couldn't handle."   
   > >   
   > >Based on that line, I was hoping and half-expecting that Grace would   
   > >step up tall and reveal hidden depths once adversity returned.   
   > >Instead... well, you've read it and know what happens.   
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   > I wonder how much RAH's second wife influenced the portrayal of Grace?   
      
   Virginia? Wasn't she the very conservative woman who influenced Heinlein   
   away from his "grok and share water" early days?   
      
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