TY - SER
KW - World War II
KW - suburbs
KW - housewives
KW - steel industry
AU - Ann Willets
AB - Anton, 28, is a rich, pretty, self-centered Sewickley housewife who struggles to be happy. “This has much compassion for the problems of the poor little rich people,” says Kirkus Reviews, “all this in Fitzgeraldian sympathy, with some of the gilt.” “For Sewickley,” says the Women’s Page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “there are family names in it—Chapin and Shriver, for example. And those closely familiar with Sewickley Valley landmarks will do some talking about whose house and what country club and whose children were involved in the author’s planning.”
C1 - 1940s
C3 - Allegheny County; Sewickley; Pittsburgh
C4 - Romance; Psychological
CY - Boston
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Anton, 28, is a rich, pretty, self-centered Sewickley housewife who struggles to be happy. “This has much compassion for the problems of the poor little rich people,” says Kirkus Reviews, “all this in Fitzgeraldian sympathy, with some of the gilt.” “For Sewickley,” says the Women’s Page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “there are family names in it—Chapin and Shriver, for example. And those closely familiar with Sewickley Valley landmarks will do some talking about whose house and what country club and whose children were involved in the author’s planning.”
PB - Random House
PP - Boston
PY - 1951
RN - Harriet Ann Willets Boyd (1919-2000), born in Sewickley, Allegheny County, studied painting at the University of Florence and writing at Columbia University. During World War II, in Europe and North Africa she briefed and debriefed intelligence officers for the Office of Strategic Services, experience that she used for her second novel, Sting of Glory (1954). In 1954 Willets married William Boyd, also of Sewickley, a Vice President of Pittsburgh National Bank. She was active with the Women's Committee of the Carnegie Museum of Art and the board of Pressley Ridge Schools. Her third book is a history of Sewickley Academy on its 150th anniversary. She is buried in Belmont, New York.
EP - 346 p.
TI - Never Give the Heart
ER -