@jinglepostman @KarenStrickholm Thank you both for the wonderful list of book recommendations.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman I had not heard of that. Fascinating. How books move around is inherently fascinating. In high school, my Latin teacher in 4th year gave each of us in the class a Latin book to read and report on. When I opened mine, I saw that my great-aunt, who was a Latin teacher, had written her name in the book. It was her book. My Latin teacher did not know, of course, when she gave me the book that it had belonged to my great-aunt β who lived in a different place altogether
-
Aloniaxxreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Ohh, I went into a second-hand bookshop in the city where I'd gone to Grammar School some 30yrs before to look for a copy of Cyrano de Bergerac in French that we'd done at 'O'Level...and the copy I found had a little love note on the inside from our French teacher to the English teacher. They were both women and my school was all girls. It was very romantic and I wanted to talk to my classmates about it!
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Aloniaxx last edited by
@Judeet99 Amazing. That's a novelistic story that could actually be worked into a novel!
-
Leslie πΊπΈπ»π πreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman I admit I had my mom's complete works of Shakespeare and stole the notes from the margins for my college Shakespeare class. The professor liked "my" observations. βοΈ
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Leslie πΊπΈπ»π π last edited by
@Lesliesez @KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman What a wonderful resource to crib from!
-
Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman Exactly. And you always leave with a present!
-
Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman That is wild! Do you still have it? What was the book about?
-
Leslie πΊπΈπ»π πreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman what an amazing story about getting your great aunt's book as well!
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman A cousin of mine gave a nice luncheon yesterday for a group of friends (and me as family), and she happened to mention her book club to me. That gave me an opportunity to tell her about this discussion of book clubs and some of the wonderful ideas I'm hearing about them here. She was very interested!
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman I do still have it. Haven't looked at it in years, and honestly can't quite remember what it's about. My recollection is that it tells some boring story that would otherwise have been told in English, but was translated into Latin. I remember how surprised I was when my teacher handed me the book. Even before I saw the signature of my great-aunt, Frances Tucker (she married my grandfather's brother), I recognized her handwriting.
/1
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman I knew the handwriting because, after Frances died young of t.b., her widowed husband John came to live with my grandmother, his sister, and after his death, John's trunk remained in my grandmother's attic. We grandchildren used to play in the attic and open the old trunks, and in John's trunk was a diary Frances had kept while at university and then in a treatment home for t.b. patients.
I have now given that diary to a a local archive.
/2
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman I also knew Frances' handwriting because a little picture that had belonged to her, Guido Reni's "Aurora," hung in my grandmother's bedroom, and I would sometimes take it down to look at and look at the back, where she had written that the painting in the picture was Guido Areni's "Aurora." I now have that little picture and treasure it, because it has so many good childhood memories attached to it. It occurs to me to attach a photo of Frances on her wedding day.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Leslie πΊπΈπ»π π last edited by
@Lesliesez @KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman It was quite a surprise, since my great-aunt didn't even live in the town in which I went to high school, and my Latin teacher had never known her. She thought she had bought that book at a used bookstore.
-
Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman The no stress dinner book club lives on!
-
Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman So young and so pretty!
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman She was β and, tragically, she died tragically young at the age of 31 less than three years after marrying my great-uncle. They had a son born in 1922 and she immediately discovered she had advanced t.b. and went off to a treatment place, then came home to die. My great-uncle never recovered. They were a real love match, as her diary indicated. Her family were well-educated and wealthy Massachusetts folks who came to Arkansas after the Civil War.
/1
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman My great-uncle was a son of a small central Arkansas farmer and Irish immigrant mother. He had no education to speak of and certainly no money. But they were head over heels in love with each other and married despite her family's opposition, which she mentions delicately in her diary.
/2
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman Love to hear about it!
-
Elizabeth S.replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Oh, that's heartbreaking! and their son had to grow up without his mother. I hope her family reconciled before she died.
Where in Massachusetts did they come from? I have Mass. roots. -
Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman This sounds great! And also like it could be a wonderful film.