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...DIARY OF "HELENA MORLEY" (281 pp.)-Translated and edited by Elizabeth Bishop-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
Little girls are a joy and grown girls can exercise intolerable charms, but the girl just moving into her teens is often a hidden mystery to all but her peers. What makes "Helena Morley" a very special girl is the fact that she told not only all, or nearly all. to her diary, but published the diary in full. Following the day-by-day account, the reader will make a friend and also cross a threshold toward a special kind of understanding...
...name was not really Helena but Alice. She was Portuguese, living with her parents in the Brazilian diamond-mining town of Diamantina, and she began to keep her record of everyday happenings in 1893, when she was twelve. In 1942, as Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant of Rio de Janeiro (her husband twice served as president of the Bank of Brazil), she published her diary in a small edition for friends and family. Famed French Novelist Georges Bernanos saw it and proclaimed it a work of genius. By the time-1952-that U.S. Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Elizabeth Bishop went...
Diamond Fever. Helena's father was the son of an English doctor named Dayrell who had settled in Brazil because he had a "weak chest." Her mother was one of ten daughters of a Brazilian who married off his girls without their leave by the simple process of interviewing the proposing swains. Helena records family stories of how the girls "used to peek through the keyhole and tell each other, 'I think that so-and-so's mine.' " Helena's mother was one of only two who married for love, and it was-as charmingly...
...known he was going to make his last stand cooped up in the company of 42 heroes of other states, e.g., Massachusetts' Sam Adams, Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, Texas' Sam Houston and Pennsylvania's Robert Fulton.* not even the cussingest barkeep west of Helena could...