Books: After the Vestris
(2 of 2) * Other Book-of-the-Month: SUSAN SPRAYSheila
Kaye-SmithHarper ($2.50). It is the story of a woman evangelist, born
of poor farmer tenants in rural England. At the age of four she sees
God in a fiery bush, runs home screaming to her mother; for the rest of
her life she continues to embroider on the tale, sincerely coming to
believe it herself. Through the course of her life she marries three
times, manages to combine the flesh & the spirit so charmingly, so
successfully that she becomes famed.
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