REMEMBER AND BE GIAD

by Cynthia Asquith ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 15, 1952

An informal memoir which continues the record of ""people, places and moods"" of the earlier Haply I Remember and looks back on the passage of time and custom not so much with regret- as with appreciation of a world which was both gracious and stimulating. Here is the Edwardian era of her girlhood in which she made her debut- the young men who were desirable or ""detrimentals"", the reigning beauties, the visits, theatres, and gentle intellectual sport. There's a warm likeness of her mother, Mary Elcho, whose large country home and vivacious interest attracted a flux of friends- among them Arthur Balfour, N. G. Wells, the Webbs and Max Beerbohm. There's the ""fluttering radiance- preternaturally alive"" of D. H. Lawrence in a portrait of the artist in all his gentleness as well as the ""fever and the fret""; there's a Cotswold neighbor, Miss Eliza Wedgewood, the descendant of the famous potter; and an infinite variety of impression- of moment in its reflection of this world of intellectual and social prestige to which the author herself adds a charming footnote.

Pub Date: Sept. 15, 1952

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Scribner

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1952

Categories: NONFICTION