Memories grave and gay

Not every person receives a chance to live a life as bright and full of prominent events as the author of «Memories grave and gay,» Florence Howe Hall. She was an American writer, critic, and lecturer about women's suffrage in the United States. Florence Howe Hall was named after Florence Nightingale, who was a close friend of her family and her godmother. Being born in the 1840s, she witnessed the twilight of the American South, the Civil War, and the rise of the new country with its new political movements. Her memoir is an extremely interesting book about life in America in the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th.