Inscribed with a Quote from Julian of Norwich
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
Publication: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974. First Edition.
Notes: An inscribed copy of the second of L'Engle's "Crosswick" memoirs. In this book, she writes about three generations gathering to care for the author's elderly and declining mother at L'Engle's home, Crosswicks, in rural Connecticut.
245 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing stated). The edges of the page block are foxed and the endpapers discolored from the glue. The jacket has chips and tears, particularly at the spine. A decent copy, but nicely inscribed to L'Engle's friends, the writer Paul Darcy Boles and his wife, Dorothy. "For Dorothy & Paul, & all shall be well & all shall be well & all manner of thing shall be well—Love, Madeleine." The inscription comes from Julian of Norwich and was also quoted by T. S. Eliot, with whom L'Engle shared a deep Christian faith.
When L'Engle met Boles is not known to your cataloguer. In 1982, two years before Boles died, they taught at a writing workshop together. The recipient is known from a postcard addressed to Dorothy Boles which was in another book from the same source.
Item No: #270683
Price: $100