Painted Windows

Childhood recalled in a sequence of short pieces — night, solitude, friendship, fame, remorse, a first journey — each one a pane in the window of memory, looked at again from the far side of middle age. Peattie became a reporter at the Chicago Tribune in the 1880s, when women were not, and ran its literary page for a decade; this small book is the quietest and most personal thing she wrote. Sixty ...