A Charmed Love: The Baltimore of Sara Haardt and H. L. Mencken, 1923-1935
H. L. Mencken didn’t like Southerners or suffragists. But when the famed American essayist, critic, and journalist met Sara Haardt, a Southern suffragist and Goucher College professor, he couldn’t resist and promptly broke another one of his rules and married her. Their unlikely, and tragically short, love story is documented in Goucher’s exhibit A Charmed […]
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