From Publishers Weekly:
This collection of more than 200 letters written by Winslow to her mother-in-law, Tennessee novelist Anne Goodwin Winslow ( The Springs ), provides a glimpse into the literary life of Washington, D.C., during the 1940s and 1950s. After the wartime death of her husband left her a widow with two children, Winslow augmented her small income from the sale of her art by painting portraits of writers, including Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost and Allen Tate. Winslow's detailed and witty correspondence discusses the difficulties of her widowhood, as well as the pleasures of her long friendship with Tate and his wife, novelist Caroline Gordon. Winslow rented a room to Porter, and her description of the fiction writer's emotional problems is marked by understanding and affection. An exhibition of Winslow's portraits, several of which are reproduced here, will open at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., in July.
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From Library Journal:
In these letters to her mother-in-law, the novelist and poet Anne Godwin Winslow, portraitist Winslow paints a lively picture of a long-gone Washington, when Georgetown was a bohemian neighborhood, poets came for dinner, and butter was cheap but rationed. Since the Winslows' friends included Katherine Anne Porter, Allan Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Eudora Welty, the daily life recounted here still holds intellectual as well as sentimental interest for readers. Winslow supplements the letters with her own narrative and footnotes, as well as numerous photos and reproductions of the many portraits she painted during this period. For large literary collections.
- Shelley Cox, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
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