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The artist recalls her life in Omaha, NE, scholarship to Kansas City Art Institute, and working as a Hallmark girl before World War II. Illustrations of forty of Hill's watercolor paintings are included.
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Includes materials relating to Hill's school days at Houston High School and Rice Institute; correspondence and advertising materials relating to Hill's business; feature pages by Hill from the Houston Post-Dispatch; issues of the Rice student newspaper, The Thresher (1922-1927); and a handwritten newspaper from Willard, Tenn. (1892).
In an era of uncertain survival in the New World, the Devil himself was believed to prey on society--and his witches could be convicted by mere children.
Contains primary source material.
Originally published: Great Britain: Faber & Faber, 2016.
My maiden name was Frances Hill. I was born at a small village near Liverpool, in Lancashire, of parents extremely poor, and, Ipiously believe, extremely honest. My father, who had received a maim on his limbs, that disabled him from following the more laborious branches of country drudgery, got, by making nets, a scanty subsistence, which was not much enlarged by my mother's keeping a little day-school for the girls in her neighborhood. They had had several children; but none lived to any age except myself, who had received from nature a constitution perfectly healthy. (...) As I had now nobody left alive in the village, who had concerned enough about what should become of me, to start any objections to this scheme, and the woman who took care of me after my parents' death, rather encouraged me to pursue it, I soon came to a resolution of making this launch into the wide world, by repairing to London, in order to seek my fortune, a phrase which, by the bye, has ruined more adventurers of both sexes, from the country, than ever it made or advanced. - Taken from "Fanny Hill Or, Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure" written by John Cleland
Geoff Williams is a freelance journalist who regularly writes for U.S. News & World Report and has written for numerous other publications, including CNNMoney.com, Life and Reuters. He is also the author of Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever. He lives with his two daughters in Loveland, Ohio.