Rendezvous

by Rose Franken

Told consistently through the unsophisticated eyes of a French peasant girl, she has painted a knowing portrait of a particularized locale with human denominators of universal identification. Every the faraway little town in Connecticut comes alive with a subtle magic of evocation. Miss Franken is never guilty of writing with a message, and yet her plays and novels carry a deeper impact than the outward story.

For more than two thousand years in the village of Eze, perched high on the hills above the Mediterranean has not been inviolate from invasion.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1954

About the author

Rose Dorothy Lewin Franken was born on December 28th 1895, in Gainesville, Texas and was one of the most popular and influential Jewish woman writers of her day. She was a celebrated Broadway playwright and director, a Hollywood screenwriter and a popular novelist whose fiction touched a sympathetic chord in American women. Franken's work reflects her personal struggle with traditional gender roles and her ambivalence about balancing domestic and career commitments.

Novelist and short story writer Rose Franken crossed over into the theater with the surprise hit of her play Another Language in 1932. Her sharp-eyed observations about the American family gave tang to her domestic dramas Claudia (1941) and The Hallams (1947). Social concerns such as antisemitism, homophobia, sexism, and war fueled her other plays such as Outrageous Fortune (1943), Doctors Disagree (1943), and Soldier’s Wife (1944).

Franken was married to William Brown Meloney who helped bring the Claudia stories to the radio. They had three sons.