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E.L., the Bread Box Papers
Dickens called her "that little darling", Thackerey thought her "easy to fall in love with". President James Buchanan was "an immense friend", and Henry Adams modeled the heroine of a best-selling novel after her. She danced with Prince Albert and traveled Italy with General George McClellan. A nineteenth century female Zelig, she managed to be in all the right places with all the right people. As the wife and widow of diplomat T. Bigelow Lawrence -- of the Boston Lawrences -- she charmed artists, the literati, and social leaders of her day in London, Florence, and Washington. Moreover, she wrote all the details in missives "to Mama" back in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, a trove of letters signed E.L. that were recently discovered in an antique bread box and became the basis of this spirited biography.
Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Chapman Family
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Candlefish
The candlefish, enormous schools of which enter the Pacific Northwest’s rivers in the spring, is so rich with oil that when supplied with a wick it can be used as a candle. Thus creatures of the water become transformed into instruments of fire and spirit, ultimately transcending this world. Written as the author begins to navigate the second half of life, Candlefish unfolds along multiple lines of narrative and reflection. Each poem is rendered from experience and made incandescent by the spark of the author’s intellect and insight. Whether tending the flower beds, skinnydipping on her birthday, conversing with a grown daughter, or bringing inside the teacup her husband can no longer carry, Elizabeth Biller Chapman distills each moment to its most vital components and makes them luminous with the necessity and surprise of relation. Elizabeth Biller Chapman’s candlefish gracefully swim toward the pierced horizon all of us must face and are transformed by imaginative compassion as the book develops, season by season, from summer to spring.
