Maude Hutchins: 3 books

Maude Hutchins first came into prominence— brilliant writer, painter, sculptor that she is—with A Diary of Love, in 1950. This was a charming story of a young girl's coming of age, told with a kind of eighteenth century aristocratic, or agrarian, frankness of tone, filled with a delicate sensuality...

Victorine is thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s older brother...

Love--Plain and Fancy! When granddaughter Paula started a dangerous flirtation with the gardener's son... And daughter Sissy got too chummy with a dashing man of the world... Maisie saw her past flash before her. She was a woman who had lived and loved both plain and fancy. And what went on about...