Record Added: 7/2/2019 Setting  England Topic Historical Fiction Publisher Little, Brown, & Company ISBN B00GSAB7YY Year 1953 Age Adult Pages 249 Description Printed dustjacket
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"In the heat of a spacious August noon, in the heart of the great summer of 1870, the three famous Sylvester women waited in their parlor to receive and make welcome the fourth.
The parlor was hot as a hothouse, not a window was open, all three women were big, strongly-corsetted, amply-petticoated, layered chin to toe in flannel, cambric, and silk at a guinea a yard. Their broad, handsome faces were scarlet, their temples moist. Nature had so cheerfully designed them that even wash-day left them fair-tempered: before the high festivity of a marriage their spirits rose, expanded, and bloomed to a solar pitch of stately jollification."
In Victoria's reign the Devonshire Sylvesters were a race of silent, powerful, black-haired giants. They tilled their family acres vigorously, ate and drank hugely, kept their own company zealously, and prospered in the modest way that farmers prosper. This was before Charlotte alerted them, and long before Fanny Davis played hob with their happiness. |
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From Sports & Pawn Shop in Beaver, UT; June 2019 Humpherys Family Reunion
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