Description

In Several GREEN LEAVES the writer includes the rural settings of her earliest books with most of the styles- and also a number of the figures- of her later types. Changing points of view among several figures, she develops with gathering impact the image of living in a city overlooked by period however impacted significantly by it. Historic period- symbolized by Druid wrecks, the neighborhood eighteenth-century country manor, and the final aristocrats who entertained it in the 1920s- is juxtaposed from the banalities of living in the current world.