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The author writes candidly and affectionately of her childhood in turn of the century New York, in a four-stories red brick house on Irving Place, ... read full description

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Dec 20, 2007
CLM rated it: 4 of 5 stars
This story of the author's girlhood in NYC at the turn of the century will interest fans of Betsy-Tacy and Ruth Sawyer's Roller Skates. Because Gladys' father was the doctor for many artistic celebrities, she was exposed to such luminaries as Mark Twain, Lily Langtry, Enrico Caruso and Lillian Russell. Gladys'descriptions of her hurried dash to the Brearley School every morning will be familiar to anyone who is habitually late in the morning! For a moment, I almost caught myself wondering if More...
May 26, 2011
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