Old Rose and Silver: Music and Late Love in a Quiet House
Myrtle Reed
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by George Inness, Albert Bierstadt and Mary Cassatt. A house of women — an aunt, two cousins, a rose-colored past and a silver-haired present — and a man who comes back from the war. Reed wrote Lavender and Old Lace and a dozen more that sold in the hundreds of thousands, plus cookery books under a pen name; she killed herself at thirty-six. The gentleness is real, and so is the shadow under it. Fifty-nine plates of quiet rooms, gardens and calm water by painters including Childe Hassam and Edvard Munch, spanning 1850 to 1922, echo the book's hush and its shadow.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by George Inness, Albert Bierstadt and Mary Cassatt. A house of women — an aunt, two cousins, a rose-colored past and a silver-haired present — and a man who comes back from the war. Reed wrote Lavender and Old Lace and a dozen more that sold in t...
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Myrtle Reed wrote Lavender and Old Lace and a dozen more books of gentle romance that sold in the hundreds of thousands, plus cookery books under a pen name. Her private life bore no resemblance to them: an unhappy marriage she could not leave, insomnia, and in 1911 a deliberate overdose of the sleeping draught she depended on. She was thirty-seven.
Myrtle Reed wrote Lavender and Old Lace and a dozen more books of gentle romance that sold in the hundreds of thousands, plus cookery books under a pen name. Her private life bore no resemblance to them: an unhappy marriage she could not leave, insomnia, and in 1911 a deliberate overdose of the s...
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