The Velveteen Daughter
A Novel
Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2017.
Format: Book
Description: 399 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
The story of Margery Williams Bianco, author of the beloved children's book The Velveteen Rabbit, and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing father, an obsessive love affair, and a spectacularly misguided marriage. Throughout, her life raft is her mother.The glamorous art world of Europe and New York in the early 20th century and a supporting cast of luminaries, including Eugene O'Neill and his wife Agnes (Margery's niece), Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica, provide a vivid backdrop to the Biancos' story.
Subjects:
Bianco, Margery Williams, 1881-1944 -- Fiction.
Bianco, Pamela, 1906-1994 -- Fiction.
Women artists -- Fiction.
Women authors -- Fiction.
Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Bianco, Margery Williams, 1881-1944 -- Fiction.
Bianco, Pamela, 1906-1994 -- Fiction.
Women artists -- Fiction.
Women authors -- Fiction.
Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781631521928
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Huber | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
Includes discussion questions.
Includes endnotes regarding the authenticity of the story, pages 381-384.
Includes bibliographical references, pages 391-393.
Includes endnotes regarding the authenticity of the story, pages 381-384.
Includes bibliographical references, pages 391-393.