Mingled souls
Subtitle: a love story in letters, 1916-1920
By: Sheila Harvey Tanzer
Publisher: Back Channel Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Salem, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781934582626
Subjects: Love-letters; Lettres d'amour; Love letters
Notes: "Mingled Souls tells the extraordinary story of a love that bridged cultural and religious divides. Anchored in the letters that Dorothy Thigpen and Edmund Shea exchanged between 1916 and 1920, the narrative recounts how they survived the perils and separation imposed by World War I, and how they negotiated the powerful parental disapproval their match provoked. Dorothy grew up in the Deep South, raised in a Protestant family with a distinguished heritage, and Edmund was a young Harvard-educated lawyer from Irish immigrant roots who grew up in northern Wisconsin. The book is a testament to their faith that their love could transcend sectarian division. It records the mystery of two human beings coming to know one another over great distance and at a moment in history when the world changed forever." -publisher.