The Flower and the Nettle (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Diary and letters
- Time of Work: 1936-1939
- Setting: England and many countries in the rest of Europe
- Principal Characters: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh, Jon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary, Letters
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Gender roles, Self, Marriage, Social life, Women’s issues, Career women
- Locales: Europe, England
Form and Content
Following the kidnapping and death of their twenty-month-old child, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband, Charles, could find no relief from reporters. The couple had always been besieged by the press because of Charles’s great success in aviation, but the tragedy of their young son made any sort of life away from public eyes impossible. For this reason, Anne and Charles decided to move across the Atlantic to a remote home in England. From that home, Long Barn, and from their stone house, Illiec, on a small island off the northern coast of Brittany, she...
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