A History Of Amherst College During The Administrations Of Its First Five Presidents From 1821 To 1

Author : Virginia Dickinson Reynolds
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342998
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Shared Histories written by Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 will also encounter various prominent English people and members of the aristocracy, the American southern elite, and such familiar names as Martha Graham, Walt Disney, and Ellen Glasgow. Both women were born in Richmond, Virginia, and raised in privileged circumstances. Virginia Dickinson Reynolds was the child of a Confederate Army officer and was also a distant cousin of poet Emily Dickinson. Virginia Potter traveled widely until she married an English Army officer and settled in his country. The women's intensely close bond shines through Shared Histories as, from time to time, do their class-conscious, Anglo-Saxon sensibilities. Sometimes poignant, sometimes bristling, always candid, these letters portray private worlds of tradition confronted with global change.