In Washington FHB
quickly made new friends, particularly the journalist Julia Schayer
(who soon after they met wrote of her as the Coming Woman).
qtd. in
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
68
Within a few years she made the acquaintance of...
Textual Production
Willa Cather
In April 1925 WC
formulated her own very high opinion of Wagner
's operas in her preface to Gertrude Hall
's The Wagnerian Romances (which she had first read in the blue air of New Mexico).
Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
66
Travel
Frances Hodgson Burnett
After her house in Washington was badly damaged by fire, FHB
sailed for London with her sons and her friend Kitty Hall
, leaving her husband
behind.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
