Returning after a quarter of a century abroad, Pennell gathers her memories of a Philadelphia girlhood: convent school, the Assembly balls, Quaker reserve and the old brick streets around Christ Church and Betsy Ross’s house. Alongside them run her impressions of the busy modern city and her husband Joseph’s lithographs of both.
An affectionate, opinionated portrait of a great American city by two of its notable expatriates. Download the free EPUB.