Summary
Letters to a Daughter – Audiobook Lissten Free at NovelRc.com
_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