FIRST EDITION(dated title page) 1978 Houghton Mifflin hardcover, Anna Mary Wells. A portrait of the relationship between two prominent and independent women who struggled with each other and their professional lives—one an English professor and a writer, the other President of Mt. Holyoke College—through the course of an emotional involvement that continued for fifty years, altering with time but steadily deepening until death parted them. Mary Emma Woolley retired from the presidency of Mt. Holyoke College in 1937 following a full and illustrious career as a pioneer in higher education for women. During her 36 years as Mt. Holyoke's President, Woolley had been active in feminist causes and world peace. She also had a life separate from her public self. This she shared with Jeannette Marks, an author and English professor at the college, in a love affair that lasted half a century.
