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The Moonlit Path

出版	Peter P Goodman, 2022-10-22
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War IFiction / LiteraryFiction / World Literature / American / 20th Century
ISBN	17353412079781735341200
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cMNizwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The Moonlit Path is the 1914 journal of Katherine Willard, a 32-year-old artist and avid gardener in Oakland, California. An independent woman in a man's world, and an artist in a profit-driven society, Katherine is restless, but doesn't anticipate future thoughts on those matters. She's also haunted by dark secrets. She begins writing a diary in a blank garden-journal given her for Christmas, with no clue how eventful 1914 will be for her. Later in the year, she does some things that surprise us (and her), changing her life. The Moonlit Path plunges the reader into 1914 as Katherine lives it, providing a clear view of life in the U.S. on the eve of World War I. It's like visiting a new country, with a lively local guide. A clear view of how folks back then viewed issues may help sharpen readers' understandings of our own time. There are instructive similarities and contrasts between the different eras' accepted wisdom on feminism, immigration, "race," and morality; and in both eras many folks feel the world is spinning too fast for them.Katherine likes art and nature better than people. Politically, she's a Progressive, and an avid suffragist. She's a sufficiently accomplished artist that a San Francisco gallery offers her paintings for sale.Her world includes her widowed father, an attorney who fought in the Civil War in his youth; Aunt Agnes, a thoughtful spinster with socially conservative views who came to live with them to help raise Katherine and her sister after their mother died; Uncle Thomas and Aunt Emily; Katherine's married sister, Elizabeth, who's more socially prominent and fashion-conscious; Susan, a cousin Katherine thinks may be suffering sexual abuse; Helen, a long-time friend who is somewhat more traditional than Katherine; Bret, a young newspaperman and would-be fiction-writer who is somewhat of a muckraker just as muckraking is going out of style; and Suzanne, a photographer who is new in town and holds somewhat more radical views than Katherine on love and life.