Hazel Varella

Blanche Ames Ames (1878–1969) and Oakes Ames (1874–1950)

History & Biography

“Having read all of Oakes Ames’s diaries, I believe that Elizabeth Fideler has accurately described and explained the actions and beliefs of Oakes’s and Blanche Ames’s lives. Oakes stated in one of the diaries that he wanted his children to learn from his diaries. Borderland represented in his words ‘a revolution in feelings, ideas, and thoughts.’ Elizabeth Fideler has effectively captured the details of this ‘revolution.’”