Four Unposted Letters to Catherine
By Laura Riding
1930
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Like Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, this remarkable little book of wisdom and advice refreshes the mind and renews the spirit. Written in 1930 and published in Paris by the Hours Press in a limited edition of only two hundred, these letters were addressed to an eight-year-old girl, the "thoughtful and sensible" child of Nancy Nicholson and Robert Graves. But they were also meant for adults who might have such a child in their spirit. In simple, luminous language, Laura Riding explains the difference between learning and knowing; the value of thinking, of doing, and of not-showing-off; and how it is good to live straight, avoiding the hypocrisies and pretensions of "the muddle." Here is a literary treasure to be shared between generations. For many readers, it will also serve as an invaluable key to the thought of this astonishingly original writer.
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Author
Laura Riding
Author · 11 books
Laura (Riding) Jackson was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer. 1923-1926 as Laura Riding Gottschalk 1927-1939 as Laura Riding 1963-1991 as Laura (Riding) Jackson She also published under the pseudonym Madeleine Vara.
