A Woman of Her Times

By Gary J. Scrimgeour and G.j. Scrimgeour

Book Overview

This portrait of Elizabeth Wingate follows her turbulent life from post-World War I Asia to England to the glamorous Hollywood of the thirties This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671448781
• ISBN13: 9780671448783
• Release Date: October 1983
• Publisher: Pocket
• Length: 551 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A lost semi-precious gem

I found this book left behind by somebody years ago at the Waldorf-Astoria in NYC. Its a nice read: a multi-generational story of one Elizabeth Wingate, her parents, and her progeny. It traverses the British Empire from colonial India to the lost colony of America and eventually ends up in nearly modern California. I kept waiting for something dramatic, some epiphany, but in the end, its simply the story of a life and its tangents. The book is well-written and enjoyable but I think there's a reason I've never heard of the author.

Journey with Elizabeth Wingate

I picked this book up for lack of something else to read, four days later, I smiled as I read the last sentence. I struggled in the beginning to get into the story, it was monotonous and seemed to be the fictitious equivalent of a history book, but I continued...for as I said, I had nothing better to read. Though the writing style may seem dull, and in the beginning casts that shadow over the story itself... Elizabeth, her family and friends, become real. Not only do you experience the lives they live, but you also receive an amazingly clear picture of what our world was! Perhaps, I have left this review incomplete...in fact, I am sure I have. There are many more things I could say...about Elizabeth's soul-searching, about Jennifer's indecision, which walks hand in hand with ambition, to Charles's hidden self. However, instead, I will tell you that this book touched me, opened my eyes to many new ideas and truths and sparked an interest in the world around me.