Partridge in a swamp: The journals of Viola C. White, 1918-1941
She hoped to follow in the footsteps of Emily Dickinson and do something to mend the social and economic infirmities of humanity. She could turn out a spare-time poem. Her letters, both professional (related to publication of her literary oeuvre and to her work as Curator of the Abernethy Library) and personal, reveal her thoughts and desires regarding her work and family.