Against Wind and Tide

Letters and Journals, 1947-1986

Ranked #72 in Menopause

Why, as an eager and talented writer, has Anne Morrow Lindbergh published so relatively little in forty years of marriage?” asked reviewer John Barkham in 1970. “After a promising start with those first books on flying, she tapered off into long silences broken by an infrequent volume of verse or prose.”  Many years later, Lindbergh replied with a quote from Harriet Beecher Stowe, who claimed that writing, for a wife and mother, is “rowing against wind and tide.”
 
In this sixth and final collection of Lindbergh’s diaries and letters, taking us from 1947 to 1986, we mark her...
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