Wow! I didn't know Forster was at Dickinson! In fact i didn't know he was still alive. I spent some good times at Dickinson football games, both in my young years as a date and in the 90's when my son played football at Gettysburg abd Dickinson was a rival. Also when i was 14 i spent a week at Dickinson at a "Methodist camp".
I'm reading Lauren Bacall's autobiography "By Myself." it's quite good, very well written. If she wrote it herself she could have had a career as a writer. It's very detailed, including what are supposedly actual conversations. I am always impressed by people's memory of details, altho i'm also often skeptical of how accurate they are, unless, like first ladies, they've kept detailed diaries.
I'm also reading a new book "The King's Mistresses." a book about two sisters who were mistresses of Louis the 14th. The author apparently found sources that indicated how the sisters took more control of their lives then the way they've been portrayed in the past. It's an interesting look at how wives of the aristocracy were treated, having arranged marriages, having inheritences spent by those husbands, being isolated so the husbands had more control over them, often, and sometimes the best choice, being put in convents. Altho, i have been impressed that women did have, in France, some legal actions that they could take, apparently more then in other European countries and more then in the American colomies and states for centuries to come.
Jean