Beecher-Stowe Descendant finally reads THE BOOK

NYT has a commentary by a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe in their Disunion section that is following the developments of the Civil War. link here

Gone with the Wind

Today's NYT has a story about "missing" chapters of Gone With The Wind showing up in the collection of the Pequot Library in Connecticut--quite a ways from Atlanta. It seems that the president of Mitchell's publisher left it to the library along with other materials from his career at Macmillan. Mitchell had wanted the early drafts and all pre-publishing material destroyed because she had a conviction that books should only be judged as the final product, and it is not known how these chapters survived. It may have been oversight, it may have been deliberate, those involved are all beyond asking.

Also from that story, this June is the 75th anniversary of the publication. We'll have to make note of that at Words & Images.

Revisiting Edith

I spent the past week reading an Edith Wharton biography, and reading some of her major works as they were discussed. I finished the bio, and have started Age of Innocence to be followed by The Buccaneers.