Name/TitleThe Unicorn and Other Poems
MakerLindbergh, Anne Morrow
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectHardback publication with paper dust cover, titled 'The Unicorn and Other Poems 1935-1955' by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The inside of the dust cover states: "Some of these poems have appeared in magazines; many have never been published, among them the long poem that gives the book its title. Here is her poet's response to the great experience of life: to love and death, to the great joy of flight, to art and nature, to the impact of a world at war." The photograph of Lindbergh on the back cover was taken by Leonard McCombe.
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper and board
MeasurementsH: 210 x W: 135 x D: 15 mm
Date Made1956
Period1930s-1950s
Place MadeUSA, New York
Place NotesPantheon Books Inc., 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 14, N.Y.
PublisherPantheon Books Inc.
Publication Date1956
Publication PlaceUSA, New York
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Morrow_Lindbergh:
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights. Raised in Englewood, New Jersey, and later New York City, Anne Morrow graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1928. She married Charles in 1929, and in 1930 became the first woman to receive a U.S. glider pilot license. Throughout the early 1930s, she served as radio operator and copilot to Charles on multiple exploratory flights and aerial surveys. Following the 1932 kidnapping and murder of their first-born infant child, Anne and Charles moved to Europe in 1935 to escape the American press and hysteria surrounding the case, where their views shifted during the preliminary time of World War II towards an alleged sympathy for Nazi Germany and a concern for the United States’ ability to compete with Germany in the war with their opposing air power. When they returned to America in 1939, the couple supported the isolationist America First Committee before ultimately expressing public support for the U.S. war effort after the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent German declaration of war against the United States. After the war, she moved away from politics and wrote extensive poetry and nonfiction that helped the Lindberghs regain their reputation, which had been greatly damaged since the days leading up to the war. She authored the popular Gift from the Sea (1955), and became an inspirational figure for many American women. According to Publishers Weekly, the book was one of the top nonfiction bestsellers of the 1950s. After suffering a series of strokes throughout the 1990s that left her disoriented and disabled, Anne died in 2001 at the age of 94.
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's writing & literature
Subject and Association Keywordspoetry & verse
Subject and Association KeywordsSecond World War
Subject and Association Keywordsaviation, flight
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
Object numberGWL-2024-35-3
Spine LabelTHE UNICORN ~ ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH ~ PANTHEON
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved