The Heritage by Ellen Bromfield Geld

The Heritage (1962) is a lyrical and sensitive memoir by Bromfield's youngest daughter covering her earliest memories in France through the death of her father in the fifties. Not surprisingly, she grew up in a dynamic environment among a number of unusual characters, not the least of which was her father.

Ellen Bromfield Geld wrote a memoir of the man who was Louis Bromfield, father and friend, tyrant and “Boss,” alive always to whatever was worth responding to in people and in places, yet complex and lonely as a writer must essentially be to work at his craft.  The Heritage remains a moving tribute and the recreation of a remarkable human being.