And here are Origo's memoirs . . . Her privileged upbringing - America, Ireland, then Fiesole - gave her a breadth and depth of sympathy which illuminated her life both as chatelaine of the Val d'Orcia estate and as biographer. The worlds she evokes may be lost but her intelligent, perceptive attitude to life are for all time. She says 'It has only been through my affections that I have been able to perceive, however imperfectly, some faint "Intimations of Immortality"'. There you go!
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 87 Winter 2018 ) |
