Helen Perry Curtis and the European trip of a lifetime
Book - 2020
in 1937, Helen Perry Curtis published Jean & Company, Unlimited. Chosen in 1938 as a Junior Literary Guild Selection of the Month, Jean is the charming account of an American girl's first encounter with Europe. In Helen Perry Curtis and the European Trip of a Lifetime, author Laura Gellott tells the story of the woman and the real-life events behind a beloved childhood book. She traces Helen's life from a Nebraska childhood to New York, New Jersey and across the European continent during the first decades of the twentieth century. Helen Perry Curtis worked as a museum curator and director; balanced marriage and motherhood with a career as a freelance writer, interior designer, and tour guide; and traveled throughout Europe wit...h her daughters. The fictionalized account of those trips is Jean & Company, Unlimited.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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Cleveland, OH :
Parafine Press
2020.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Physical Description
- 282 pages : photographs ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781950843275