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A world of light : portraits and celebrations /

In A World of Light, renowned poet and novelist May Sarton renders unforgettable portraits of the friends she considers family--and the family she looks upon as friends. From her father, famed science historian George Sarton, she learns that work is "of the first importance." Her mother, M...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sarton, May, 1912-1995 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [1976]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Sarton, May, > 1912-1995 > Friends and associates.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Sarton, May, > 1912- > Friends and associates.
Écrivains américains > 20e siècle > Biographies.
Sarton, May, > 1912-1995
Authors, American
1900-1999
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • An informal portrait of George Sarton
  • Mabel Elwes Sarton: portrait of the artist as my mother
  • Celine Dangotte Limbosch
  • Edith Forbes Kennedy
  • Grace Eliot Dudley: le petit bois
  • Alice and Haniel Long: the leopard land
  • Marc, the vigneron
  • Quig, the painter
  • S.S. Koteliansky
  • Elizabeth Bowen
  • Louise Bogan
  • Jean Dominique.