| The Aunts |  | Author: Isabella Halsted
Publisher: Sharksmouth Pr
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2719917
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 172
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0963611607
EAN: 9780963611604
ASIN: 0963611607
Publication Date: March 1993
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touching historical work October 24, 1999
Sally Molloy (USA)
Having lived in "the cottage" at Sharksmouth, this book came to life. You feel the magnitude of these remarkable women from a time when it was not the norm for women. The sense of their accomplishments exudes from the pages. It is written with tenderness and wit. Truely an enjoyable read on a snowy night with a crackling fire and a glass of wine. It reminds me of "A Woman of Substance" by Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Four Boston Brahmin women break the mold February 2, 1999
Van H. Seagraves (Washington, DC USA)
What was it that shapes character? how would you envision an interesting future for yourself, use your intelligence and energy if you were one of ten children born in the late 19th century to a prominent New England family? Isabella Halsted, a refreshingly straightforward writer, remembers her grandparents, uncles and aunts in Boston and at their Manchester summer home - a "Victorian-Gothic castle" by the sea. Of the five sons and five daughters, it is the four maiden aunts who fashioned amazing lives beyond the usual patterns of their day, or even ours. The boys went to Harvard; the girls were on their own. Healthy and strong, these young women had imagination, self-confidence and plenty of individuality. Separately, or together, they excelled in sports (golf), served the Hampton Institute in Virginia (one as Dean of Women), fostered health clinics for the poor and served in them, galloped through British society, learned carpentry, studied social work professionally. The youngest took a prominent role in Red Cross work in France during World War I, was appointed Assistant Chief of Refugee Affairs in Paris and soon afterwards, Chef du Bureau until long after the war ended, later awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French government. Mrs. Halsted's first-hand observations and stories about the family she remembers are thoughtful, sometimes critical or amusing, always cogent. Excellent photographs.
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