Mavis Gallant’s “The Statues Taken Down” (1965)
Buried In Print2019-12-24T08:18:22-05:00Readers never meet her directly, but we are told that she looks like the Holbein portrait of Lady Barker. (Here shown in such a way that it’s easy to imagine a wallet photo.) This is the mother of Hal and Dorothy. Once George Crawley’s wife. On the surface, this