The Swan in the Evening - Fragments of an Inner Life - Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Lehmann's only autobiographical work recreates the events that shaped her life-from childhood to motherhood to the death of her daughter Rosamond Lehmann was born during a violent February thunderstorm and lived a sheltered, privileged life with her parents, brother, and sisters. Writing from the distance of decades, she reveals why no adult would ever apologize to a child, shares thoughts on her \first conscious memory,\ and discusses the taboo subjects of \birth, death, physical and..