Dear Betty, Love, Edith: Letters and secret thoughts from a Minneapolis ingénue while a Wellesley student in 1916, a nurse’s aide in WWI Paris, a ... Prohibition Chicago, and a Pasadena divorcée - Couverture souple

Mitchell, Mary Ames

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0985053070 ISBN 13 : 9780985053079

Editeur : Peach Plum Press, 2017

Synopsis

When Mary Ames Mitchell researched her genealogy, she learned that letters her grandmother Edith wrote to her first cousin Betty had been saved for five decades in an old attic in St. Paul, Minnesota. Edith began her correspondence in 1909 after Betty left the Twin Cities to study in Boston at Miss Winsor’s finishing school. Later, during WWI, the cousins worked together for the American Fund for French Wounded in Paris. Edith wrote her last letter weeks before her premature death in California in 1965 – when Mary was fourteen.Learning that her grandmother had fought alcoholism, Mary wanted desperately to know why a successful and bright woman became so unhappy. Touched and fascinated by her grandmother’s candid and tender descriptions of being a teenager, Ivy league college student, nurses aide, and Chicago socialite, Mary lovingly transcribed the letters and published them as Dear Betty, Love, Edith, so her cousins and brothers could read them, too. In the process of piecing together the historical background, Mary collaborated with Betty’s ninety-plus-year-old daughters, Leila and Kitty, who contributed their own rich memories.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Expert genealogist and researcher Mary Ames Mitchell has traveled the United States and Great Britain seeking stories about her ancestors. Using her degrees in Art History from Wheaton College, Graphic Design from Art Center College of Design, and Education from the University of Southern California, she compiles books, slide presentations, animations and even ballads to pass the stories on to her children and grandchildren. She has traveled from her home in the San Francisco Bay area to the tiny mining town of Minonk, Illinois, and the metropoles of Minneapolis and Chicago. She visits ancestral graves and homes as far away as Aberdeen in Scotland and in localities in California. Through diligent research, she has proven ancestral links through The Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Jamestowne Society and the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peach Plum Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0985053070
• ISBN 13: 9780985053079
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Éditeur: Poullada Leila Dean Jackson
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