Women and the Muse

Anne Morrow Lindbergh has recorded her reflections during a several week's sojourn by the sea. Increasingly disturbed by the difficulty of retaining a sense of individuality in the midst of life's ecomplexities, she seeks an "inner harmony," a pattern for her life.

Her book is essentially a woman's book, as her problem is primarily a woman's problem. In our society it has traditionally been the woman who has had to resolve the conflicting pulls of family, community, and career responsibilities, the woman who has had to compromise her individual desires with those dependent on her.

Finding the qualities she lacks in her collection of shells, Mrs. Lindbergh believes that solitude and simplicity are the keys to a more relaxed, secure plan of life. For those who are basically repelled by self conscious and often redundant verbalizations, the book says nothing.

On the other hand, those who have experienced the same problems and appreciate someone else's reaction to them will find the book a reassuring and helpful account of one woman's search for inner security.