By Taylor Jasmine | On July 7, 2015 | Updated September 23, 2022 | Comments (0)
From the original review in the Salisbury Evening Post (NC), November 1914: One of the leading books of the season is by the same anonymous author, “Elizabeth,” whose fame spread so quickly after the publication of her inimitable Elizabeth and Her German Garden. And like that book, this one deals with German life and how an English girl lived it.
To attempt to describe this book would be manifestly unfair to the reader (that and criticism of the story must remain for the reviewer) but a few samples of its incisive humor and the searching contrasts drawn between British and German ideals and temperaments when drawn together in the mosh of family life, may perhaps not be amiss. Read More→
By Taylor Jasmine | On July 7, 2015 | Updated September 23, 2022 | Comments (0)
New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Wiggin is the 1907 companion to the hugely successful Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903). The original volume is a classic tale of an orphan girl — a trope that was quite popular in this era — finding her way in a world that’s indifferent to her plight.
Rebecca Rowena Randall also, not surprisingly, has to win the hearts and affection of tart maiden aunts who are at first annoyed by having to take her in.
The original Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was a huge success from the time it was published. It was adapted for the the theater starting in 1910, and was filmed several times. The best-known film adaptation starred Shirley Temple (1938), with a rather altered plot. The book’s success paved the way for the sequel. Read More→
By Taylor Jasmine | On July 7, 2015 | Updated September 23, 2022 | Comments (0)
From the original review in Newport Daily News, March 1951: This is the poignant story, by Maud Hart Lovelace, of a girl who has a difficult adjustment to make, and makes it with courage and success. Emily Webster was an orphan who lived with her grandfather, a Civil War veteran.
When the story opens she is graduating from high school in the class of 1912. She is a class officer and she goes with a merry crowd of girls. Many of the class go off to college, but Emily, although she longs for more education, will not leave her grandfather. Read More→
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