Delightful People

The eleven essays in this volume introduce a host of genuinely delightful people from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With abundant wit and a discerning eye for detail, Schmalhofer acquaints his reader with such social luminaries as Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Chanler, novelists Willa Cather, Francis Marion Crawford, and Henry James, artist John La Farge and art collector Egisto Fabbri, as well the irrepressible Father Cyril Sigourney Fay, whose many friends included Pope Benedict XV and F. Scott Fitzgerald.The subjects of these literary portraits are indeed delightful: highly accomplished, cultured, and educated, one and all, they are also representative of a bygone, oft-overlooked age. As in life, when their “presence was effervescence,” even now, on paper, their fellowship remains a source of insightful enchantment.
ASIN: 1952826233
VSKU: BVV.1952826233.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Schmalhofer, Stephen|Litke O.P., Austin
Binding: Paperback
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