Was she Julia?
Stephen Spender, 7 July 1983
Code Name ‘Mary’: Memoirs of an American Woman in the Austrian Underground
by Muriel Gardiner.
Yale, 200 pp., £10.95, May 1983,0 300 02940 3 Show More
by Muriel Gardiner.
Yale, 200 pp., £10.95, May 1983,
“... idea is retained in the first part of the book, where she describes her childhood, spent among a small army of servants in a ‘castle-like house’ and, later on, an even more grandiose ‘Tudor’ one, on Chicago’s South Side. When her nurse Mollie, whom she loved more than she did her mother, told her, ‘You’re rich, but we’re poor people,’ she ... ”