"I am determined not to let the fear of growing old deprive me of the happiness that has always come naturally to me", writes Margaret Howe Freydberg in Growing up In Old Age, a touching memoir of one woman's struggle to cope with nature's unyielding course of aging. It is her philosophies and daily reasoning that invoke the reader with courage. In the face of an ailing husband, knowing that death is soon to follow, she confronts her fear, and instead of burying herself in overprotectivness of her husband she concludes "I ...
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"I am determined not to let the fear of growing old deprive me of the happiness that has always come naturally to me", writes Margaret Howe Freydberg in Growing up In Old Age, a touching memoir of one woman's struggle to cope with nature's unyielding course of aging. It is her philosophies and daily reasoning that invoke the reader with courage. In the face of an ailing husband, knowing that death is soon to follow, she confronts her fear, and instead of burying herself in overprotectivness of her husband she concludes "I do not want to harm the last years of his life, and of mine, with what appears to be love, but is not". She unbears her soul through the solace of writing, which takes the reader on a daring, eye-opening journey. "I am not a finished old woman. I am an old woman growing up", concludes Freydberg.
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Good. Size: 8x5x1; Inscribed by the author to her daughter, signed as 'Mum'. Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Binding slightly cocked. Scattered underlining and markings. *Autographed by author. * Margaret Howe Freydberg, the poet and novelist whose grace, elegance and remarkable longevity spanned more than a century of life. Peggy Freydberg, as she was known to most, wrote her first novel, The Bride in 1952. Her other books included The Lovely April, Catherine's House, Winter Concert, The Consequences of Loving Syra, Growing Up in Old Age, a memoir, and three books of poetry: Evening on the Pond, In Other Words and Wanting. Many of her poems have been published in the Gazette through the decades. Three years ago she published Cruachan: The Battle Cry of Scottish Chieftains, a long short story, originally written after her first and only visit to Scotland in the 1950s.
