Title: Family portrait.
Authors: Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 1897-1973
Publisher: Little, Brown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Drinker family.
Abstract: This autobiography extended beyond the author to include the other members of the prominent Quaker family into which Bowen was born. One brother invented the iron lung; another founded Harvard School of Public Health. Bowen herself was a bestselling American biographer who won the 1957 Philadelphia Award and the 1962 Women's National Book Association award. Family Portrait was her last book.
Contents: Prelude to Bethlehem. A dominance of males -- Bethlehem, 1905 -- The president's house -- Harry and Sophie -- Beach Haven -- Cecil -- Grand tour -- Ernesta -- The house on west Spruce Street. Cecilia Beaux -- Kate Drinker. Macao to Philadelphia. The families meet and Cecilia goes her way alone -- Harry. Full tide. The law and music -- Aunt Cecilia refuses to die -- Philip, Cecil and Katherine -- The iron lung. "Industrial Dust" -- Cecil. "The hardest living asks its price" -- Green Alley. The measure of our days. Farewell to Harry -- Coda. "Relating to those gone hence.".