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ALLIS MAUGUERITE Splendour Stays
Cassell, U.K. 1949. First Edition, Hard Cover. Good Plus Plus/No Jacket. 456 pages, size 8 inches tall by 5.5 inches. ' History is people-how they felt, and how those feelings influenced the course of events-not merely a cinema reel on which one-dimensional figures caper like paper dolls in the strong winds of circumstance. The seven daughters of Captain Elisha Hart of Saybrook were, with the exception of the eldest and the youngest, all born in the final decade of the eighteenth century, and the last survivor among them is remembered by people now living. Several of them lie in Saybrook's Ancient Burying Ground, one in Philadelphia and another at Burlington, Vermont. Theirs was a period when "females" were, like children, seen and not heard. Even so, they swayed history by subtle means not preserved in the records. Residents along the lower Connecticut River know fragments of the tale of the seven Harts-a highly romantic tale, or rather series of interwoven romances. But the whole story, with all its repercussions, personal, national, and international, is available only to one who is patient i.n the searching of old newspapers, old diaries, and the musty files of the State and Navy Departments in Washington-to one patient in search, yet imaginative enough to read between the lines where so much basic history is written. "To say why folks do thus and so, indeed would be presuming." Yet the historical novelist must presume, not upon known fact, but upon the mysteries of the human heart. His excuse is that, in so doing, he hopes to interpret the present in terms of the past; not pointing out analogies or morals (God forbid!) but leaving the reader so vivid a picture of the participants in that past as to feel, with the poet Swinburne, that although "the shadow stayed not," nevertheless "the splendour stays." M.A. June 1942 .' Book - in Good Plus yellow boards with black lettering - some marking/blue spotting to the boards, a couple of small spots of rubbing/wearing to the extreme long board edges, light bumping to the extreme ends of the spine. Contents, spotting/browning to the page edges, otherwise clean and tightly bound. A Rare Title. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Fiction Classic & Modern Inventory No: 003047.
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