Letters to a Daughter
Author(s): Hubert Bland
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works
Narrators: Jennifer Fournier, Nigel Kerr, Dyxlesic, Winnifred Assmann, Seraphina, De Anna Lee, Fierdin, Docdlmartin, Beeswaxcandle, Hope
Number of Chapters: 15
Length: 03 hours and 40 minutes
Language: English
Letters to a Daughter is a collection of essays proffering ‘fatherly advice’ in the form of a one-sided correspondence. Each of these takes the form of a response to a question that a young woman who is about to enter adult society might pose. The fictional daughter in Letters to a Daughter is named ‘Alexa.’ The author, Hubert Bland, a columnist and political activist, dedicated the book to his daughter, Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland.
While married to the author Edith Nesbit, Mr. Bland had a lifelong extramarital relationship with Alice Hoatson, the birth mother of Rosamund - Edith, Alice and Hubert lived together ‘openly’. Rosamund wrote The Man in the Stone House, a novel about a young woman’s relationship with her parents, and the children’s book Moo Cow Tales; she also wrote the children's book Cat Tales with her adoptive mother, Edith Nesbit - Summary by Brian Fullen