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Miss Aunt Nellie: The Autobiography of Nellie C Cornish
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299 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1965
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April 17, 2019
This 1964 book has a forward by the writer Nancy Wilson Ross.
This is a fairly interesting but extremely rambling “memoir” type book. Part One, which covers “The early Years” (pages 3-85), is filled with early Pacific Northwest pioneer recollections. Disorganized and disjointed it, of course, has lots of details for anyone interested in that time period (CA Gold Rush through 1914). But the text could definitely have used some critical editing. The book as a whole, is of course, “edited” by the editors listed as author but both Part One and Part Two (“The Cornish School”) suffer greatly from poor editing. Published as it was to celebrate the Cornish School’s Golden Anniversary it is obvious that the intent was less to provide a readable history of that time period that to congratulate Miss Aunt Nellie and name drop about all those involved with the school, famous and (mostly) non famous. This minutiae may possibly be of interest to Cornish alums or serious historians of Seattle. For everyone else, the little taste of pioneer history is probably not worth the time it takes to plough through 273 fairly tedious pages. Includes Index and “Tribute” essays from Martha Graham and Mark Tobey.
This is a fairly interesting but extremely rambling “memoir” type book. Part One, which covers “The early Years” (pages 3-85), is filled with early Pacific Northwest pioneer recollections. Disorganized and disjointed it, of course, has lots of details for anyone interested in that time period (CA Gold Rush through 1914). But the text could definitely have used some critical editing. The book as a whole, is of course, “edited” by the editors listed as author but both Part One and Part Two (“The Cornish School”) suffer greatly from poor editing. Published as it was to celebrate the Cornish School’s Golden Anniversary it is obvious that the intent was less to provide a readable history of that time period that to congratulate Miss Aunt Nellie and name drop about all those involved with the school, famous and (mostly) non famous. This minutiae may possibly be of interest to Cornish alums or serious historians of Seattle. For everyone else, the little taste of pioneer history is probably not worth the time it takes to plough through 273 fairly tedious pages. Includes Index and “Tribute” essays from Martha Graham and Mark Tobey.
May 14, 2011
The inspiring autobiography of a woman with the vision to found a school for the arts in Seattle at a time when this was a logging town.
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