Irma: A Chicago Woman's Story, 1871-1966 - Softcover

"From this chance collaboration between two women who never met, I have learned first-hand about a Chicago and Chicagoans that I'd only read about and a culture that I grew up in, but which seems to have slipped away without my knowing it. Irma speaks of all these things with wit, insight, and a reflection that touches the mind and the soul, as we say in Chicago, early and often. Steinberg has managed to do for Irma Frankenstein what Thornton Wilder could not, and it is our good fortune that she has."

Crafted out of Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein's writings, this text offers an account of the life and times of an active, socially engaged woman who devoted herself to her family and her community set against the context of the Chicago history that Irma knew so well.