Marguerite Thoburn Watkins: 3 books
Two Taproots
Growing up in the Forties in India and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2004
Marguerite Thoburn Watkins memoir, Two Taproots: Growing Up in the Forties in India and America begins as the USA enters World War II and her missionary family, the Thoburns, is evacuated from India to America. It covers the next ten years of the authors life. Three peripatetic years in New England...
by Marguerite Thoburn Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Anticipation is a book of poetry which, while touching on Marguerite Watkins upbringing in India, for the most part is inspired by her life as an adult in America and by her mothers family stories. Her first book of poetry, Patterns in Henna, contained poems about her memories as the daughter of missionary...
by Marguerite Thoburn Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
The three sections in Patterns in Henna contain poems from three parts of my life; most of the first two sections are set in British India in the thirties, forties, or earlier, an era and place gone forever.
The poems in Section I are impressions from childhood with the point of view of a child...