{"product_id":"darling-ro-and-the-benet-women","title":"Darling Ro and the Benet Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book-length study of a gifted American writer and her life during the 1920s\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Benét name immediately evokes Stephen Vincent and his older brother William Rose, Pulitzer Prize–winning poets and novelists during the first half of the twentieth century. Less well remembered are the remarkable women related to the Benét brothers, including Rosemary Carr, Stephen's wife; Laura, his sister; Elinor Wylie, William's second wife; and Kathleen Norris, the popular novelist who raised the children of her brother-in-law William.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDarling Ro and the Benét Women\u003c\/em\u003e presents a revealing glimpse of social and literary life in New York and Paris during the 1920s. Using a recently released collection of letters from the Benét Collection at Yale University, author Evelyn Helmick Hively extracts captivating anecdotes and impressions about a talented group of writers and impressive feminist figures. Written by Rosemary Carr Benét to her mother, Dr. Rachel Hickey Carr (one of Chicago's first women physicians), the compilation of letters and short dispatches from Paris provides the focus of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gifted poet and journalist, Rosemary Carr was a prolific writer of articles for the\u003cem\u003e New York Herald-Tribune, Harper's Bazaar,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e; of stories and poems for \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and other magazines; and hundreds of letters. She belonged to a remarkably skillful, social, and artistic group of men and women who bonded early in life, and her letters paint fascinating portraits of their lives, careers, and relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDarling Ro and the Benét Women\u003c\/em\u003e offers an insider's perspective of a well-known cosmopolitan American family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kent State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55332052205912,"sku":"9781606350966","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781606350966.jpg?v=1778673635","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/darling-ro-and-the-benet-women","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}