Editorial Content for Autobiography of Us
Rebecca Madden, relating her story to a mysterious "you," starts with her life as a teenager in a tony residential area of Pasadena in the 1960s. Her parents struggle a bit financially to keep up with their neighbors, and her mother pushes Rebecca to do the expected thing for a young female of her place and time. Rebecca obligingly takes the cooking/sewing/dancing classes, but she knows she does not fit in to her mother's image. She lacks close friends until Alex Carrington shows up at her private school. Read More
Editorial Content for Hild
Not much is known about the historical figure that came to be known as Saint Hilda of Whitby. She was born in the early seventh century in England, related to several royal families. One of the patron saints of learning and culture in the Catholic Church, Hild lived during a time of transformation in the British Isles; kingdoms were always changing hands and Christianity was making headway. While there is scant information about her, it is clear from what is known that she was a woman of intelligence, intuition and power. Read More
