Little Saint (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Hannah Green
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History and travel
- Time of Work: 303 to the present, with emphasis on an unspecified day in June, 1979
- Setting: Conques, in south central France
- Principal Characters: Saint Foy, Hannah Green, John “Jack” Wesley, Père André, Père Gilles, Madame Benoit, Jean-Pierre “Kalia” Kaliaguine, Monsieur Rémy Montourcy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, History
- Subjects: 1970’s, Self-discovery, France or French people, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Religion, Christianity, Catholics or Catholic Church, Martyrs or martyrdom, Saints or sainthood, Fourth century
- Locales: France
Hannah Green is probably best known for her first book, The Dead of the House (1973), a largely historical account of her family’s early history. She studied fiction at Wellesley College under Vladimir Nabokov before moving to Stanford University in 1956 where she began working with Wallace Stegner. In the early 1960’s, Green received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and, in 1971, married John “Jack” Wesley, an artist who figures prominently in Little Saint. From 1975 on, Green and Wesley began spending their summers in France, where the couple’s experiences...
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