Love and War Tie Two Lives in Washington Square
In wartime New York, Ann Cortlandt and the recovering Peter form a close bond while navigating love, ambition, and class, as Ann grapples with Hendricks’s absence and Peter’s drive to rise from military privation toward a future in Chicago.
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Chicago
Fanny
Ann
Peter
New York
Deter
Washington Square House
Count Avezzana’s Proposal Shocks Ann in Paris Letter
Ann confronts a startling letter from Hendricks Cortlandt stating Count Avezzana seeks her hand. The guardian urges consent or speed to an Italian marriage before he returns to Europe, hinting at a Paris wedding and a possible honeymoon together as war in America rages. Ann recoils at the suitor and ponders her fading life and future.
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Hendricks
Peter
Ann
Alost
Endricks
Fanny
Cortlandt
Danny
Ann Byrne
Avezzana
Nny
Mil- Center
Gettysburg
Fa&t
Hendrick
Annie
Missionary Ridge
Milton Center
Paris
Italy
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Milan
Piedmont
Europe
Count Argezzana
America
North America
It Scatters Yellow Fever Mosquito Details
The text explains yellow fever is carried solely by the stegmoyia mosquito, a tiny tropical species that evades ordinary screens. It notes the insect’s silvery lyre shaped thorax pattern and white striped abdomen and legs with black and white bands.
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Stegmoyia
Tropics
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Joseph
Uncle Hendricks
Jin
Rennessyer