Pencil notations on pages 52 and 54
While in New York City on Wednesday I stopped off at one of my favorite bookstores (The Strand).
In a copy of English Costume Of The Seventeenth Century , I spotted the bookplate shown above and old brain cells started to vibrate. I know that name but who was she? Even if Kathleen Winsor is someone whose bookplate belongs with my collection of books from the libraries of famous people , how can I be sure this belonged to the real Kathleen Winsor and not a waitress from Hoboken, New Jersey ?
Okay, the next page is signed and dated 1944 in New York City so I have eliminated the waitress in Hoboken.
On to the next clue , a slip of paper inserted in the book referring me to the pencil notations on pages 52 and 54 which meant nothing to me at the time .
The Strand cataloger assured me that this was a book from the library of the real Kathleen Winsor and she used it when doing research for Forever Amber. I never read the book but subsequently found out that the main characters are Amber and her true love Lord Bruce Carlton. So there it is all wrapped up in a neat package.
The book belonged to the writer of Forever Amber.
In doing my research I came upon an enjoyable review of Forever Amber written by Susanna Moore . Here is a link to her review
Http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1642805_1642798_1642784.00.html
