The Chestertons and the Golden Key
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When Clare Nicholl grew up, she became a nun, just like her imaginary heroine in this book, Sister Smith. Clare died in 1969.
But when I corresponded with Joan’s niece Caroline, I found out Joan was still alive at nearly one hundred years of age, and she still remembered the fun she had with Unclet and Auntlet when she and her sisters were just small girls.
To Learn More
about G.K. Mrs. Chesterton:
Brown, Nancy. The Woman Who Was Chesterton, Bloomington, Minnesota: American Chesterton Society Books, 2015.
Pearce, Joseph. Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1996.
Ward, Maisie. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005.
Website: The American Chesterton Society www.chesterton.org
About the Authors Illustrator
Nancy Carpentier Brown is the author of the world’s first biography of Frances Chesterton, wife of British author G.K. Chesterton. She’s married to an artist and has two lovely daughters.
Regina Doman is the author of Angel in the Waters and several well-regarded books for teens and adults. She and her husband, both fans of G.K. Chesterton, run Chesterton Press. They live on a small homestead in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with nine of their ten children and raise chickens and sheep.
Ann Kissane Engelhart is a watercolor artist, illustrator and educator. She has illustrated several children’s books, including Bambinelli Sunday, Adventures in Assisi, Friendship with Jesus, Be Saints! and The Dirt Maker. Her portraits, still-life and landscape paintings are featured in galleries and private collections. She lives in New York with her husband and children.