Letters Home, Time and Again: The Coming of Age of a Modern Woman a Century Ago - Dorothy Hedges Original Letters

ISBN-13: 9781544067407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 170 str.

Mr Ed Denne; Mrs Gayle Fuess Denne

Opis

They were locked away in the attic closet in the old family summer cottage in East Hampton, New York. Personal letters written a century ago - so carefully saved and undisturbed for so many decades - very recently rediscovered and conversing once again. Dorothy Hedges, unknowingly and unintentionally, nudges open this portal to the past. Each of her letters takes us deeper into another place through narratives that are ever more familiar and staggeringly authentic. We come to know Dorothy and to like her. These are her genuine words, hopes and greatest fears. Not stories about the past but rather the actual past captured as she experienced it. This portal suddenly - unpredictably - closes - yet we are there, we know her, we reside in her world, and we feel her loss. Born and raised in East Hampton and related to virtually all the founding families, Dorothy has moxie, drive and passion. Determined to be independent and successful, she ventures a long distance to Oswego for college and returned to the east end for career - then all too soon and sadly, sigh tragically, her life is cut short.