The petrified gesture, a novel, by Mary Fanning Wickham
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The petrified gesture, a novel, by Mary Fanning Wickham
Language
eng
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Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The petrified gesture
Oclc number
1506435
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by Mary Fanning Wickham
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Learning that she will soon die even though she is not yet forty, Camille Sharswood spends a summer in Charleston, her childhood home, where she falls in love with Louis Gironde, an ornithologist and her cousin. Returning to Philadelphia, Camille wills her vast estate to the Natural History Academy as a nature center, provided Gironde is named director, despite the protests of her nephew and heir
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