Evelyn Koontz Musavi was born in Middletown, Maryland, a small, quaint farming town, settled by German immigrants in the mid-1700s. This provided a backdrop for the unexpected adventures to come. In The Wife of the Doctor, she offers a memoir of a young American girl, born during the Great Depression. Living with loving parents and grandparents on a farm in a modest Victorian house, lacking indoor plumbing, central heat, refrigeration, and laundry facilities, Musavi experienced a host of adventures: from dropping seed potatoes into an open furrow at age of six, hunting and skeet shooting with her dad, collecting milkweed pods for pilots’ jackets in World War II, and marriage to a young Iranian surgeon from an aristocratic and prominent Persian family. The remainder of her life has been filled with motherhood, years of business, retirement, and travel. The Wife of the Doctor gives insight into one woman’s life as she adapted to a variety of situations using her mantra to work hard, tell the truth, mind your own business, and go to church on Sunday. It chronicles a story of how creativity and self-reliance prevailed with faith in God as her GPS
Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) achieved international fame in 1911 with the publication of her book, Mysticism, now in its eighteenth edition. In the course of her long career she published nearly forty books, including three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as numerous poems in periodicals. She was the religion editor for Spectator, a friend of T. S. Eliot (her influence is visible in his last masterpiece, Four Quartets), and the first woman invited to lecture on theology at Oxford University. In time for the centennial celebration of her classic Mysticism, this volume of Underhill's letters will enable readers and researchers to follow her as she reconciled her beliefs with her daily life. The letters reveal her personal and theological development and clarify the relationships that influenced her life and work. Drawing from collections previously unknown to scholars, this volume demonstrates an exceptional range and scope, including Underhill's earliest letters from boarding school to her mother, correspondence with Nobel prize laureate Rabindinrath Tagore and Sir James Frazier, and a letter written to T. S. Eliot from what was to be her deathbed in London in 1941 as the London Blitz blazed around her.
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