The velveteen daughter

By Laurel Davis Huber

Subjects: Women authors, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Bianco, Pamela, 1906-1994 -- Fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Mothers and daughters -- Fiction, Mental Depression, Women authors -- Fiction, Women artists, fiction, Fiction, Depression, Mental -- Fiction, Women artists, Fiction, biographical, Bianco, Margery Williams, 1881-1944 -- Fiction, Women artists -- Fiction, Mothers and daughters

Description: The story of Margery Williams Bianco, author of the beloved children's book The Velveteen Rabbit, and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing father, an obsessive love affair, and a spectacularly misguided marriage. Throughout, her life raft is her mother. The glamorous art world of Europe and New York in the early 20th century and a supporting cast of luminaries, including Eugene O'Neill and his wife Agnes (Margery's niece), Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica, provide a vivid backdrop to the Biancos' story.