Althea Dixmont Jefferies

This book is dedicated to my mother, ALTHEA DIXMONT JEFFERIES, the finest woman I have ever known. And below that, Jefferies had written in black fountain-pen ink that was now fading, “For Martha Rosewall, who cleans up my clutter and never complains.” Below this he had signed his name and jotted August ’61.

Peter Jefferies’s mother, named in the printed dedication of Blaze of Heaven. No encounter with her is narrated.