How Long to Read Shared Histories

How Long Does it Take to Read Shared Histories?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 10 minutes to read Shared Histories by Virginia Dickinson Reynolds

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A mother writes to her faraway daughter: "I keep all your letters. Someday you might want to do something with them." Those words foretold Shared Histories, although neither woman would live to see the book. This is the first known published collection of letters to include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II. Separated for most of their adult lives, Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and her daughter, Virginia Potter, wrote to each other for nearly forty years. This selection from their long exchange is filled with unguarded reflections on current events, fashion, food, travel, domestic life, leisure, and the upheaval of war. Readers will also encounter various prominent English people and members of the aristocracy, the American southern elite, and such familiar names as Martha Graham, Walt Disney, and Ellen Glasgow. Both women were born in Richmond, Virginia, and raised in privileged circumstances. Virginia Dickinson Reynolds was the child of a Confederate Army officer and was also a distant cousin of poet Emily Dickinson. Virginia Potter traveled widely until she married an English Army officer and settled in his country. The women's intensely close bond shines through Shared Histories as, from time to time, do their class-conscious, Anglo-Saxon sensibilities. Sometimes poignant, sometimes bristling, always candid, these letters portray private worlds of tradition confronted with global change.

How long is Shared Histories?

Shared Histories by Virginia Dickinson Reynolds is 424 pages long, and a total of 107,696 words.

This makes it 143% the length of the average book. It also has 132% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Shared Histories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 48 minutes to read Shared Histories aloud.

What Reading Level is Shared Histories?

Shared Histories is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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