 | Shared Histories: Transatlantic Letters between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and Her Daughter, Virginia Potter, 1929-19 Subjects: Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence; Mothers and daughters -- Europe -- Correspondence; Reynolds Virginia Dickinson 1883–1966 -- Correspondence; Potter Virginia 1908– -- Correspondence; A mother writes to her faraway daughter: "I keep all your letters. Someday you might want to do something with them." Those words foretold Shared Histories , although neither woman would live to see the book. This is the first known published collection of letters to include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II. Separated for most of their adult lives, Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and her daughter, Virginia Potter, wrote to each other for nearly forty years. This selection from their long exchange is filled with unguarded reflections on current events, fashion, food, travel, domestic life, leisure, and the upheaval of war. Readers will also encounter various prominent English people and members of the aristocracy, the American southern elite, and such familiar names as Martha Graham, Walt Disney, and Ellen Glasgow. ANGELA POTTER, an independent scholar and librarian in Devon, England, is the daughter and granddaughter of the letter writers in Shared Histories . |
