>I met her once–she was holding court at a Little, Brown party at an ALA, dressed to the nines in an old-fashioned gown and lace in her hair, seated regally in a wing chair while we gathered at her feet. We commemorate her passing with an article she wrote for the Horn Book more than sixty years ago.


>Did she bring the corgis with her?
>I never knew her books. I was most fascinated with her life and the way she lived as if it were the 19th century.