Lives Illuminated - Henry, Saxon
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Lives Illuminated is a collection of essays that combines Saxon Henry's passions of traveling, reading, and creative nonfiction. As an intentional traveler, she visits places in order to feel into the past and plumb the lives of the historical figures who have lived in the locales. She has explored Giuditta Pasta's world on Lake Como; taken in Horace Walpole's Gothic visions at Strawberry Hill near London; followed Johann Wolfgang von Goethe through his hometown of Frankfurt; grown curious about Marie Louise of Austria in Parma and Consuelo Vanderbilt in Newport; plumbed Edith Wharton's…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Lives Illuminated is a collection of essays that combines Saxon Henry's passions of traveling, reading, and creative nonfiction. As an intentional traveler, she visits places in order to feel into the past and plumb the lives of the historical figures who have lived in the locales. She has explored Giuditta Pasta's world on Lake Como; taken in Horace Walpole's Gothic visions at Strawberry Hill near London; followed Johann Wolfgang von Goethe through his hometown of Frankfurt; grown curious about Marie Louise of Austria in Parma and Consuelo Vanderbilt in Newport; plumbed Edith Wharton's heartbreak in New Haven; marveled at the life Djuna Barnes chose to lead during her last four decades in New York City; trekked through the Jazz Age with the Fitzgeralds by way of their last residence as a family in Montgomery; and learned a great deal about a nature-loving Colette, a brazen Natalie Clifford Barney, and a wise King Charles V in Paris. Each of these stories reveals aspects of the lives being illuminated that show each character in a surprising light.
Autorenporträt
Saxon Henry has been a journalist for over two decades and a content strategist for fifteen years. She is an indie author who publishes her own work through the imprint Sharktooth Press, and a collaborative author who helps clients realize their own books through major publishers around the globe, such as Collaborations: A Houston Penthouse for 212box that Australian publishing house Images released in late 2023. Journalistically, Henry's byline has appeared in a wide variety of national shelter and travel publications, as well as in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Henry's books include Stranded on the Road to Promise, Anywhere But Here, Four Florida Moderns, The Modern Salonnière, and, with this publication, Lives Illuminated: The second book in The Modern Salonnière series. This sixth book intermingles experiences she has had during years of traveling while reading, each adventure woven into the essays between the covers of this book.