The Children of Bladensfield (WITH SIGNED LETTER FROM AUTHOR'S GRANDNIECE)
by: Evelyn Ward, Peter Matthiessen (Introduction)

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 141 pages. This book is a child's-eye view of the Civil War, and of life before and during it on a modest Virginia estate called Bladensfield. Evelyn Ward wrote her reminiscences when she was an old woman to document for her descendants a vanished way of life. The childhood she describes was merry and loving, and her book-sunny, brave, and sad--is haunting. Peter Matthiessen, a grandnephew of the author and therefore one of the children of Bladensfield, contributes a graceful essay on the family and Bladensfield today. Letter From the grandniece of the author tipped in.