Illustrations

Illustrations from the Petite Plaisance Archives are reproduced by permission of the Marguerite Yourcenar Trust. All rights reserved.

1.   Grace Frick at eighteen months. Petite Plaisance Archives.

2.   Mineral Hall, the LaRue residence beginning in 1919. Frick family archives.

3.   George A. “Unk” LaRue. Frick family archives.

4.   Grace Frick senior portrait, 1921 Westport Herald.

5.   Grace Frick senior portrait, 1925 Wellesley Legenda. Wellesley College Archives.

6.   Nancy Gallagher senior portrait, 1931 Sionian.

7.   Sister Marie Yann. Frick family archives.

8.   Yourcenar, Tuileries Garden, February 5, 1937. © The Image Works.

9.   Italian gold rings. Petite Plaisance Archives.

10. Ex libris of Marguerite Yourcenar and Grace Frick. Petite Plaisance Archives.

11. Kali drawing for Grace Frick by Marguerite Yourcenar, 1938. Document preserved at Houghton Library of Harvard University and reproduced by permission of the Marguerite Yourcenar Trust. All rights reserved.

12. John Donne poems, transcribed by Grace Frick. Petite Plaisance Archives.

13. Lucy Kyriakos, Euboea, 1939. Petite Plaisance Archives.

14. Cypress Gardens, Charleston, South Carolina. Petite Plaisance Archives.

15. Grace Frick, dean of Hartford Junior College. Frick family archives.

16. Pastel portrait of Marguerite Yourcenar by Charlotte Musson, 1934–35. © Musée Élise Rieuf, Massiac, France, www.musee-elise-rieuf.org.

17. Marguerite Yourcenar, late 1930s. Petite Plaisance Archives.

18. Marguerite Yourcenar, 1940. © Hartford Times, Wadsworth Atheneum Archives.

19. Grace Frick cavorting in Somes Brook. Petite Plaisance Archives.

20. Hysom’s Cabin and swimming hole. Petite Plaisance Archives.

21. Marianne Mosevius, 1940s. Donna Levinsohn archives.

22. Grace Frick in Seal Harbor during the writing of Hadrian, 1949. Petite Plaisance Archives.

23. David Peckham, age nine. Peckham family archives.

24. Grace Frick revels with the village children, 1979. Petite Plaisance Archives.

25. Early photograph of Petite Plaisance. Petite Plaisance Archives.

26. Portrait of Marguerite Yourcenar by Ina Garsoïan, 1953. Reproduced by permission of Nina G. Garsoïan.

27. Illustration from the Manesse Codex of the thirteenth-century poet Schenke von Limburg.

28. Cuiller en forme de nageuse, Egypt, fourteenth–fifteenth centuries BCE. Louvre Museum. © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource.

29. Pierrot Pendu, sketch by Marguerite Yourcenar, in Cahiers—Poèmes grecs. Petite Plaisance Archives.

30. Ancient Scandinavian gold rings. Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, and National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.

31. Pierrot pendu drawing for Grace Frick by Marguerite Yourcenar, 1957. Document preserved at Houghton Library of Harvard University and reproduced by permission of the Marguerite Yourcenar Trust. All rights reserved.

32. Grace Frick and Marguerite Yourcenar in the garden at Petite Plaisance, 1955. Hazelton family archives.

33. Grace Frick and Marguerite Yourcenar in the saddle, early 1960s. Petite Plaisance Archives.

34. Grace Frick portrait, 1962. Hazelton family archives.

35. Grace Frick and Marguerite Yourcenar in the Sonian Forest, 1971. Minear family archives.

36. Grace Frick and Marguerite Yourcenar with young American friends at Rockefeller Gardens, July 1972. Elvire de Brissac met Frick a few weeks after this photograph was taken and described the braid around her head in Ballade américaine. Petite Plaisance Archives.

37. Grace Frick and Marguerite Yourcenar aboard the MS Renaissance, 1977. Petite Plaisance Archives.