Through No Fault of My Own: A Girl's Diary of Life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age

On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve—year—old Clotilde “Coco” Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to write—and to get into scrapes—and her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the messes she created: “I’m in deep trouble through no fault of my own,” her entries frequently began. The daughter of a lumber baron, Coco grew up in a twenty—room mansion on fashionable Summit Avenue at the peak of the Jazz Age, a time when music, art, and women’s social status wer...