Mimi and Her Daughters: Remarkable Lives Revealed Through Letters and Journals

After an idyllic childhood in Brittany, sixteen-year-old Mimi is hired as a governess by a Boston family and boards the Lusitania for America. Having grown up with the romantic tale of her grandparents-who met on a Paris-bound train and married the next day-Mimi expects no less passion in her own life.

At twenty-one, she marries a popular fraternity boy, but this is far from a fairytale love, and she is soon on her own with two daughters. After several years in Upstate New York, Mimi finds e...