The Courtship Author:Budge Wilson In The Courtship we meet characters from the very young to the elderly who seem uncannily familiar to us in their pain, delight, and love. In "The Dress" a child's birthday party turns into a bizarre psychodrama. In "The Courtship" seventy-seven-year-old Mrs. Knickle romantically pursues eighty-year-old Mr. VanBuskirk with some hesitation, howev... more »er, as she has come to enjoy her afternoons of peanut butter sandwiches and reading. And in "Elliot's Daughter" a writer, not only unrequited in love but unpublished, confesses his frustrations to his diary.« less