1st Edition

Reared in a Greenhouse The StoriesNand StoryNof Dorothy Winthrop Bradford

By Dorothy B. Wexler Copyright 1999
452 Pages
by Routledge

452 Pages
by Routledge

Beloved as the family storyteller, Dorothy Winthrop Bradford left behind at her death in 1987 diaries, letters, scrapbooks and memorabilia that date back to the Civil War and provide a picture of a way of life long gone - of a period when leisure time was plentiful and cars were few, when her hometown of Hamilton, Massachusetts was open country and Boston a closed society. These materials provide... Read more
1: The Ancestors of Dorothy Winthrop Bradford; 1: Beginnings; 2: An Amory and Gardner Union; 3: A Winthrop and Taylor Union; 4: The Long Courtship; 5: A Winthrop and Amory Union; 6: The Tragic Death; 2: Dorothy Winthrop Bradford and Her Extended Family; 7: In Sickness and in Health; 8: Mea Maxima Culpa; 9: Grandma Amory's Medicine; 10: Getting Well; 11: A Trip Abroad; 12: Coming of Age; 13: The Startling Elopement; 14: Pilgrims and Puritans; 15: Another Long Courtship; 16: The Family Circle Widens; 17: A New Generation; 18: World War II; 19: The Generations Pass; 20: A Habit of Happiness

Biography

Dorothy B. Wexler

"Reared in a Greenhouse is an enchanting memoir." -- Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle