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Letters from Helen
- A Canadian Student in Germany on the Eve of the Great War
(Paperback)
Helen Vanwart
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Published by Sybertooth Inc
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Synopsis
In August of 1913, a young University of New Brunswick graduate set
out for Germany to study music at the renowned Royal Leipzig
Conservatory. Helen VanWart was a vivacious, optimistic girl, eager
to experience all that Europe had to offer. Her weekly letters home
to her family paint a portrait of Europe's last months of peace, a
time that, for Helen, passed all too quickly in classes, lessons,
and practice, practice, practice, interspersed with many concerts,
operas, and trips to such places as Dresden, Switzerland, and Rome.
Despite her daily hours of practice - often five or six - she kept
up an active social life, and her letters bring to life her
fellow-students and boarders in her Pension, and perhaps most
significantly, "Mr. Lochhead," a Canadian chemistry student about
whom she is unaccustomedly reticent The future Mrs. Lochhead,
indeed, was so immersed in her music and her friends that politics
rarely impinged upon her letters. As with so many others in Europe
and the British Empire, the outbreak of war appears to have taken
her utterly by surprise. Helen's letters are living social history,
a vibrant testament of a time now hard to imagine, the last year of
"Edwardian" innocence, and a portrait of a world that, both
musically and socially, had nothing backward-looking about it. The
future lay ahead and it was going to be golden.
Product detail
| Imprint |
Sybertooth Inc
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| Country of origin |
Canada |
| Release date |
August 2010 |
| First published |
August 2010 |
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| Authors |
Helen Vanwart
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| Editors |
Douglas Lochhead
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| Introduction by |
Nancy Vogan
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| Dimensions |
246 x 189 x 10mm (L x W x H) |
| Format |
Paperback - Trade
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| Pages |
192 |
| ISBN-13 |
978-0-9810244-9-3 |
| Barcode |
9780981024493 |
| Categories |
American history
Composers & musicians
Film, television, music, theatre
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| LSN |
0-9810244-9-1 |
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