"Autumn In The Valley" 1936 CHANLER, Mrs. Winthrop

CHANLER, Mrs. Winthrop

[293] pp.

Little, Brown, and Company

1936

9" x 6 1/4"

*jacket panel separating*

In 1904, Mrs. Chanler and her husband came back to America to live. In Autumn in the Valley she tells the story of her middle and later life. She speaks with a friend's perception of those rare spirits in American life: of Sheriff "Bob" Chanler, the artist, and of William Sturgis Bigelow, the Buddhist, of Mrs. Jack Gardner, who kept Boston society on edge, and of the writers, Henry James and Edith Wharton. The Chanler home was first in Newport and then at Sweet Briar Farm in the Genesee Valley. But, happy as she has been in her Valley home, her heart has often called her back to the Europe of her youth. She has written one extraordinary chapter on Paris and the Parisians, and another depicting the Ægean cruise which she made in company with Edith Wharton and Logan Pearsall Smith; she writes of her increasing love of hunting and of the great days which she and her husband enjoyed as they hunted in Ireland, on the Campagna, and in the Genesee Valley. She has watched her children grow up. With them she has weathered the War years. As the book closes, she looks back down the corridor of time to evaluate her life in America with rare sagacity and mellowness.