Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Frequently Cited Works by Marguerite Yourcenar
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Early Years
Chapter 2: Wellesley College
Chapter 3: Pursuing the Academic Life
Chapter 4: Time Out
Chapter 5: Incipit Vita Nova
Chapter 6: Passage to America
Chapter 7: Separation
Chapter 8: Interlude
Chapter 9: Dean Frick
Chapter 10: Echoes of the War
Chapter 11: Extracurricular Activities
Chapter 12: Locking Horns
Chapter 13: Best-Laid Plans
Chapter 14: A Gift from Jacques Kayaloff
Chapter 15: The Life Their Wishes Never Led
Chapter 16: The Saga of Emily Hall
Chapter 17: Brooks Cottage
Chapter 18: Paris, France
Chapter 19: In Collaboration with the Author
Chapter 20: On the Road Again
Chapter 21: Continuing the Journey
Chapter 22: Home Sweet Home
Chapter 23: Coup de Grâce
Chapter 24: To a Far Country
Chapter 25: Travels and Travails Foreign and Domestic
Chapter 26: The Wages of Success
Chapter 27: Three Crossings
Chapter 28: Battling over L’OEuvre au Noir
Chapter 29: Dear Departed
Chapter 30: Grace Bashing Begins
Chapter 31: Round Two
Chapter 32: Offerings to Neptune and Hermes
Chapter 33: One More Midnight Sun
Chapter 34: Surcease
Chapter 35: Coda
Epilogue: In Memoriam
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index