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Ada Leverson

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Also known as Ada Esther Leverson, Ada Beddington, Sphinx

British writer (1862-1933)

Person · Open Library

Works
20

Top works

  • Ada Leverson, Collection
  • Ada Leverson, Best Novels
  • Six Novels
  • Tenterhooks Book 2 of the Little Ottleys
  • Twelfth Hour (Esprios Classics)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
London
Active from
2003-04-22

Discography

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Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Quotes

  • "Lady Cannon's gone to a matinée at the St. James's. We had tickets for the first night, but of course she wouldn't use them then. She preferred to go alone in the afternoon, because she detests the theatre, anyhow, and afternoon performances give her a headache. If she does a thing that's disagreeable to her, she likes to do it in the most painful possible way. She has a beautiful nature."
  • Like all weddings it had left the strange feeling of futility, the slight sense of depression that comes to English people who have tried, from their strong sense of tradition, to be festive and sentimental and in high spirits too early in the day. The frame of mind supposed to be appropriate to an afternoon wedding can only be genuinely experienced by an Englishman at two o'clock in the morning.
  • As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
  • He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.
  • She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
  • Somehow she had thought of him so much that when she actually saw him again her affection seemed cooler. Had she worn out the passion by dint of constancy?

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date of birth
1862-10-10
date of death
1933-08-30
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