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Affection's Record
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The Sweet Hills of Florence
All Souls' Day - the Day of the Dead, 1941. Florence, city of strife. It is Hitler's state visit to Florence and the last of the good times for Mussolini. From now on, he and his lover Clara will cling more closely together, ever more dependent upon each other as their country spirals into civil war and their lives disintegrate. Annabelle and Enrico, young cousins from an ancient Florentine family, work first with the clandestine resistance, then openly with the partisans. Facing life and death together in the mountains, they forge a passionate life-long bond. How reliable is memory and can we ever expiate past sins? Are some ghosts better left alone? 'The Sweet Hills of Florence is a sweepi...
Shared Histories
A mother writes to her faraway daughter: "I keep all your letters. Someday you might want to do something with them." Those words foretold Shared Histories, although neither woman would live to see the book. This is the first known published collection of letters to include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II. Separated for most of their adult lives, Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and her daughter, Virginia Potter, wrote to each other for nearly forty years. This selection from their long exchange is filled with unguarded reflections on current events, fashion, food, travel, domestic life, leisure, and the upheaval of war. Readers wil...
Papers of Florence Stearns
Correspondents include: Louis Kaufman Anspacher, Martha Bianchi, James Branch Cabell, Gustav Davidson, George Dillon, Douglas Southall Freeman, Ellen Glasgow, Leigh Hanes, Mary Sinton Lewis Leitch, Corinne Melchers of the Black Swan; Louise Burleigh Powell and AlexanderWilbourne Weddell.
Men of Progress
The 1896 published volume has addenda and errata on p. [1017]-1119.
