title: My Darlings: A Memoir
author: Grace Mather-smith
description: Grace was a devoted wife and mother, a pioneer, community organizer, opera singer, midwife, businesswoman, philanthropist -- and a great beauty whom men found irresistible. She was a force of nature -- to use her phrase, she "had personality" -- whose voice comes across loud and clear in her memoir of her eventful life.
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  [Dedication](index_split_004.html#filepos1948)
  
  For Tony, who became an American after I went through all the bother of
  marrying an Englishman, as befitting a Regency romance novelist.
  
  To Emily Levine, for showing us an And-And Universe.
  
  And for the Lady Miss Penny, whom I would never wager.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](index_split_004.html#filepos2075)
  
  Many thanks to Caroline Linden and Josh Schwartz for help with “math stuff”
  and to Jody Allen for help with research. Any remaining mistakes, errors,
  misunderstandings are my own.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
    1. [ Cover](index_split_000.html#filepos152)
    2. [ Title Page](index_split_001.html#filepos271)
    3. [ Dedication](index_split_002.html#filepos362)
    4. [ Acknowledgments](index_split_003.html#filepos1080)
    5. [ Prologue](index_split_005.html#filepos5966)
    6. [ Chapter 1](index_split_006.html#filepos16308)
    7. [ Chapter 2](index_split_007.html#filepos49741)
    