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Forty Years of Friendship - Letters, 1921-1960 (Hardcover, New)
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Forty Years of Friendship - Letters, 1921-1960 (Hardcover, New)
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The friendship between Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane began
in 1920 in the publicity office of the American Red Cross in Paris
and continued until Thompson's death in 1961. Although both women
are today remembered primarily for their connections with others -
Thompson as the wife of Sinclair Lewis and Lane as the daughter of
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the ""Little House"" books - each
can be regarded as remarkable in her own right. Both women are
described as having had a vital engagement with life that led them
in fearless pursuit of experience. In 1939, Thompson appeared on
the cover of ""Time"", which judged her second only to Eleanor
Roosevelt among the influential women of the day. Typical of Lane
were her travels through the mountains of Albania, the deserts of
Syria and Soviet Georgia in the 1920s and her visit as a journalist
to Vietnam in 1965 at the age of 78. The correspondence of these
two women reveals their personal concerns, social ideas and
political/economic philosophies and how they changed over time.
Their letters tell the story of the first generation of women to
come of age during the 20th century, as they tried to cope with
problems that still face women today. Along with the letters
themselves, Holtz has included annotations and footnotes that
provide biographical information, as well as explaining personal
and topical references.
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