165 pp. Hildegarde Watson was an actress, singer, writer and patron of the arts, as well as the wife of "Dr. James Sibley Watson, Jr. (August 10, 1894 - March 31, 1982) a Rochester, New York, medical doctor, philanthropist, publisher, editor, and early experimenter in motion pictures." Includes: Preface; A New England Childhood; Finishing Schools: Dobbs Ferry and Florence; Coming Out in Boston and Europe Revisited; Courtship and Marriage, New York and Europe in the 1920s, The Dial; Filmmaking and Rochester Houses; Concert Singing and Marianne Moore; Friendships: John Cowper and Llewelyn Powys, Alyse Gregory, and E.E. Cummings; The Edge of the Woods; Appendix; Index.
