The Edge of the Woods: A Memoir

Vermont: Stinehour Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 7x0x10. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Minor abrasions to image on front board, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1979 Hard Cover. 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.