In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and to mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice the role brings to both parent and child.
Includes letters by:
Caitlin Moran, Sylvia Plath,
Martin Luther King Jr., George Bernard Shaw,
E.B. White, Laura Dern, Louisa May Alcott,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bette Davis,
Richard Wagner, Martha Gellhorn
& many more
- 144 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 01 You are an Inspiration
- 02 I Know, Mother, I Know
- 03 I am Danny Devito’s Mother
- 04 Shine, Constantly and Steadily
- 05 Isn’t it Beautiful, Mother?
- 06 The Day after Tomorrow I Must Die
- 07 Your Eager Mother
- 08 It’s Up to you Now
- 09 All of us Have a Role in Life
- 10 She was My Whole Family
- 11 It’s Never Going to be Easy
- 12 She Would Have Enjoyed it Enormously
- 13 Your Loving Mother
- 14 Great Spirit
- 15 I Have the Best Mother in the World
- 16 I Am Waiting for you
- 17 Dearest Winston, you Make me Very Unhappy
- 18 The Story Comes from within you
- 19 What is a Minute?
- 20 Maternal Love Requires no Reasons
- 21 Live a Life Worth Living
- 22 Please tell your Mother
- 23 I Shall Always be with you
- 24 My Earthly Mission is Already Fulfilled
- 25 Your Loving Daughter
- 26 I Am Writing to you for the First Time After My Death Sentence
- 27 I Love Her More than Anything
- 28 The Loss of you Lingers
- 29 Dear Daughters
- 30 Mom, Listen
- Permission Credits
- Acknowledgements
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