"In 1917, Alice Bell left her husband, an insurance adjuster in Chicago, and brought her father and two daughters to a farm in central Virginia to raise children and chickens in peace. Without the finality of divorce, it became a kind of peculiar vacation marriage--in 1919 producing the youngest daughter, Virginia.
Now, more than 70 years later, having pined throughout her adult life for the joys and rigors of her mother’s farm, Virginia Bell Dabney has brought that life to life again in an exquisite new memoir. The publication of 'Once There Was a Farm . . .' marks Dabney’s literary debut at age 71."
~ Wanda Urbanska
"BOOK REVIEW : Memoir Re-Creates an Independent Life
ONCE THERE WAS A FARM . . . A Country Childhood Remembered, by Virginia Bell Dabney"
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-24-vw-522-story.html
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