Margaret Piper Chalmers (1879–1962)
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Sylvia Arden Decides 2 kappaletta
April and Sally June 1 kappale
Babbie 1 kappale
Sylvias julferier 1 kappale
Sylvia på Arden Hall 1 kappale
Sylvia of the Hill Top 1 kappale
Peter's Best Seller 1 kappale
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Chalmers, Margaret Piper
- Muut nimet
- Piper, Margaret R.
Piper, Margaret Rebecca - Syntymäaika
- 1879-12-01
- Kuolinaika
- 1962-07
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Syntymäpaikka
- Ashby, Massachusetts, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- New York, NY, USA
- Koulutus
- Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA -- 1901
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Born in the little village of Ashby, Massachusetts, I had an uneventful childhood, but an amazingly satisfactory one, it seems to me, for a writer. Nature at her loveliest, the world of books, particularly of poetry, at my command, the society of a brother who lived in the same world of fantasy and fact which I myself inhabited. The ordinary High School education followed by four years at Smith College. The urge to write was here definitely developed under the inspiring guidance of a woman who found in my shy, half-articulate self, something worth cultivating.
"Followed years of teaching in all sorts of places. A summer in Europe, a ship on which was a young officer who was later to come back into my life rather surprisingly. A fascinating year in New York trying to be a writer, this after I actually had my first book published. "Then the war and I found myself in New York doing some special editorial work for the Boy Scouts of America. Five years of Boy Scout work, broken at intervals by months of wanderlust and that writing itch which never lets me be just an editor long.
"Then—a big leap. I went to the Orient to marry the officer whom I had met so long ago on that first adventure in travel. I was married in Singapore in April, 1923. For a year I lived on a ship with my sea captain husband, cruising here and there about the China Sea, up to Burma and India, now and then to the Dutch Indies or to Indo China.
"From May, 1924, to August, 1925, we lived in London, my husband and I both writing. For he is an author, too, as well as a captain both by land and sea. Then a few months in Vancouver and a year in California, and back to New York and again into the national office of the Boy Scouts to do some special writing." Mrs. Chalmers' latest novel is entitled: April and Sally June
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This is the 11th in the Pollyanna series, the first one having come out in 1913. Eleanor H. Porter wrote the first two books in the series, which now numbers to at least 13. A number of other folks wrote "sequels". This was the only one written by Margaret Piper Chalmers. It was the last book Ms. Piper Chalmers wrote as far as I can tell, some 16 years after she wrote her last previous book, April and Sally June.
Ms. Piper Chalmers would have seemed to have been a good choice for the Pollyanna series, which were known as the glad books. Early in her career, Ms. Piper Chalmers did a series of three cheerful books. They featured Sylvia Arden, and were, imho rather good. I think Ms. Piper Chalmers had pretty much lost her mojo by the time she wrote this book, which might be the reason someone else was asked to write subsequent Pollyanna books.
The book is OK, but not all that great, certainly now so good as the original Pollyanna book (I've only read the first in the series), nor the Sylvia Arden books. I'm thinking this was Ms. Piper Chalmers' weakest effort. Still, It's not bad, just not up to snuff compared to the initial Pollyanna books, nor the early works of Ms. Piper Chalmers.
So, anyway, Pollynanna is a middle aged, married woman, whose son and husband are off dealing with WWII. She and her younger daughter, Ruth, pick up a young woman, Mary Thorne (actually Rosemary Lane), who is on a bridge, contemplating "ending it all". They take Rosemary home, nurse her back to health, and incorporate her into their household. Eventually, Rosemary's past comes out, things turn out not to be quite as they might have seemed, and all works out well in the end. Something like that.
The first half was overly saccherine, and I actually thought of giving up. But, then things improved, and it turned out to be an ok read in the end.
… (lisätietoja)
Ms. Piper Chalmers would have seemed to have been a good choice for the Pollyanna series, which were known as the glad books. Early in her career, Ms. Piper Chalmers did a series of three cheerful books. They featured Sylvia Arden, and were, imho rather good. I think Ms. Piper Chalmers had pretty much lost her mojo by the time she wrote this book, which might be the reason someone else was asked to write subsequent Pollyanna books.
The book is OK, but not all that great, certainly now so good as the original Pollyanna book (I've only read the first in the series), nor the Sylvia Arden books. I'm thinking this was Ms. Piper Chalmers' weakest effort. Still, It's not bad, just not up to snuff compared to the initial Pollyanna books, nor the early works of Ms. Piper Chalmers.
So, anyway, Pollynanna is a middle aged, married woman, whose son and husband are off dealing with WWII. She and her younger daughter, Ruth, pick up a young woman, Mary Thorne (actually Rosemary Lane), who is on a bridge, contemplating "ending it all". They take Rosemary home, nurse her back to health, and incorporate her into their household. Eventually, Rosemary's past comes out, things turn out not to be quite as they might have seemed, and all works out well in the end. Something like that.
The first half was overly saccherine, and I actually thought of giving up. But, then things improved, and it turned out to be an ok read in the end.
… (lisätietoja)
So, Peter Loomis is a well-known author, but he's a bit burned out. He heads off to the "country". While he's lolling by a stream in the woods, a "dryad" pops up. She is actually Daphne Joyce. They chat a bit and Peter is enchanted, Daphne not so much, or so it seems.
Peter has several options offered him to help him get out of his writing funk, one of which is to take up heavy labor. So, Peter hires himself out to do the haying for Daphne's Uncle Robert, who is also the local minister. As part of his pay, he gets room and board with Uncle Robert and Aunt Lucinda, and of course, Daphne is living with them as well.
A local, Jimmy Danvers, has had his eye on Daphne for years, but his mother disapproves. She thinks of Daphne as a "foreigner" because she was born abroad, and her father was a Roman Catholic to boot. Daphne's mother scandalized the town a number of years previously by eloping with an opera singer and having a wonderful life, it seems, until she and the opera singer met an early demise. That's how Daphne got back to Danversville to live with her aunt and uncle. But much of the town never accepted her as fully one of them. After all, she might be "adventurous" like her mother, and tainted by her father's Roman Catholic proclivities.
Anyway, Jimmy Danvers' mother keeps importing a distant cousin, Angela, to live with them, and with luck, bend Jimmy' romantic fancy in a different direction.
Off and on, Peter and Daphne have chats and Daphne says the problem with Peter's writing is that it doesn't contain his essential soul, or something like that. Peter was happy to protect his soul by writing popular, somewhat vapid things, but eventually such writing wore him out. But, under Daphne's influence, albeit unknown to her, he begins to have fragments of ideas as to what he should properly be writing. He begins with some poems, and then outlines a novel.
After Peter finishes up the haying project, he thinks he should go off to write his burgeoning masterpiece. He leaves without taking proper leave of Daphne and she is devastated.
So, does Daphne eventually settle for Jimmy Danvers, or does Peter return, or does Peter return but too late, or whatever? Well, you'll have to read the book to find out.
Personally, I liked much of the book although parts got a bit tedious. Peter tends to prattle a lot of nonsense. I didn't find the ending much to my liking either, although I'm sure it would have been ok back in the day when the lives and aspirations of women were basically of secondary consequence compared to those of men.
… (lisätietoja)
Peter has several options offered him to help him get out of his writing funk, one of which is to take up heavy labor. So, Peter hires himself out to do the haying for Daphne's Uncle Robert, who is also the local minister. As part of his pay, he gets room and board with Uncle Robert and Aunt Lucinda, and of course, Daphne is living with them as well.
A local, Jimmy Danvers, has had his eye on Daphne for years, but his mother disapproves. She thinks of Daphne as a "foreigner" because she was born abroad, and her father was a Roman Catholic to boot. Daphne's mother scandalized the town a number of years previously by eloping with an opera singer and having a wonderful life, it seems, until she and the opera singer met an early demise. That's how Daphne got back to Danversville to live with her aunt and uncle. But much of the town never accepted her as fully one of them. After all, she might be "adventurous" like her mother, and tainted by her father's Roman Catholic proclivities.
Anyway, Jimmy Danvers' mother keeps importing a distant cousin, Angela, to live with them, and with luck, bend Jimmy' romantic fancy in a different direction.
Off and on, Peter and Daphne have chats and Daphne says the problem with Peter's writing is that it doesn't contain his essential soul, or something like that. Peter was happy to protect his soul by writing popular, somewhat vapid things, but eventually such writing wore him out. But, under Daphne's influence, albeit unknown to her, he begins to have fragments of ideas as to what he should properly be writing. He begins with some poems, and then outlines a novel.
After Peter finishes up the haying project, he thinks he should go off to write his burgeoning masterpiece. He leaves without taking proper leave of Daphne and she is devastated.
So, does Daphne eventually settle for Jimmy Danvers, or does Peter return, or does Peter return but too late, or whatever? Well, you'll have to read the book to find out.
Personally, I liked much of the book although parts got a bit tedious. Peter tends to prattle a lot of nonsense. I didn't find the ending much to my liking either, although I'm sure it would have been ok back in the day when the lives and aspirations of women were basically of secondary consequence compared to those of men.
… (lisätietoja)
It's April and Sally June Fenton is feeling energized by the glorious spring. Perhaps she'll find romance ... finally. Sally June is 23 and is Instructress of English Literature and Rhetoric at the Hannah Barr Female Institute of Cameronville, GA. While chaperoning the students on their walk from the school to the Episcopal church, Sally June espies a dashing young man on a horse. They eyes lock briefly, and both, it seems, are captivated by the other. But, we then hear rumors on the local gossip grapevine that the young man has rather a sordid past.
Later on, Sally June is out on a walk and has an accident, spraining her ankle. She waits by the road for someone to come by to rescue her. Who should it be, but the dashing young man on his horse? His name is Douglas Kincaid; he lives in a nearby manor house known as the Pines. He's been absent for some ten or so years, but has come back to have a quiet place where he can concentrate on his writing.
Kincaid takes Sally June to his house, fixes up her ankle, gives her a nice dinner, and bewitches her; she him as well, it would seem. But when Sally June gets back to Hannah Barr Female Institute, Miss Sophia Banbridge, the school principal, lets her know in no uncertain terms that Mr. Kincaid is to be strictly off limits. He has a sordid past, she claims, but everyone is too well bred to actually elaborate his past sins.
Sally has an old family friend whom she visits from time to time, one Serena Pringle. It seems that Miss Pringle was at one time engaged to Sally June's father, but then he ran off with a Spanish actress, Sally June's mother. But, Miss Pringle stayed best friends with Sally June's father, and as a result is a good friend to Sally June. One day, when Sally June is visiting Miss Pringle, who should be there but Douglas Kincaid.
Miss Pringle seems a reliable judge of character, and Douglass Kincaid seems a perfectly decent person. So, what to make of all the village rumors? Well, that's what needs to be worked out. Along the way we find other characters, such as the handsome young Episcopalian minister, William Morrison, and a member of the Hannah Barr board of directors, H. G. Hartley, who aren't quite what they seem. It's a fun bit of fluff from an older generation. It's probably not quite a 4* book, but definitely better than 3*s. Perhaps 4*-, which is a cut above 3* .
… (lisätietoja)
Later on, Sally June is out on a walk and has an accident, spraining her ankle. She waits by the road for someone to come by to rescue her. Who should it be, but the dashing young man on his horse? His name is Douglas Kincaid; he lives in a nearby manor house known as the Pines. He's been absent for some ten or so years, but has come back to have a quiet place where he can concentrate on his writing.
Kincaid takes Sally June to his house, fixes up her ankle, gives her a nice dinner, and bewitches her; she him as well, it would seem. But when Sally June gets back to Hannah Barr Female Institute, Miss Sophia Banbridge, the school principal, lets her know in no uncertain terms that Mr. Kincaid is to be strictly off limits. He has a sordid past, she claims, but everyone is too well bred to actually elaborate his past sins.
Sally has an old family friend whom she visits from time to time, one Serena Pringle. It seems that Miss Pringle was at one time engaged to Sally June's father, but then he ran off with a Spanish actress, Sally June's mother. But, Miss Pringle stayed best friends with Sally June's father, and as a result is a good friend to Sally June. One day, when Sally June is visiting Miss Pringle, who should be there but Douglas Kincaid.
Miss Pringle seems a reliable judge of character, and Douglass Kincaid seems a perfectly decent person. So, what to make of all the village rumors? Well, that's what needs to be worked out. Along the way we find other characters, such as the handsome young Episcopalian minister, William Morrison, and a member of the Hannah Barr board of directors, H. G. Hartley, who aren't quite what they seem. It's a fun bit of fluff from an older generation. It's probably not quite a 4* book, but definitely better than 3*s. Perhaps 4*-, which is a cut above 3* .
… (lisätietoja)
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- Teokset
- 10
- Jäseniä
- 31
- Suosituimmuussija
- #440,253
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.4
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 7
- ISBN:t
- 3
Three young women come of age 1913-ish and are predicting what they're going to do in life. One is a budding suffragette, one is a vigorous wannabe author who likes to shock her family, and one (Sylvia) doesn't really know what she wants, except to enjoy for a while her big old house and her friends, and probably not get married for a while. In the course of a year they all kind of find their spot and figure out how right or wrong they were.… (lisätietoja)