Florence Montgomery (1843–1923)
Auteur de Misunderstood
Œuvres de Florence Montgomery
L'Incompreso [Misunderstood] 2 exemplaires
Le Voile Bleu 2 exemplaires
Transformed or, three weeks in a life-time 1 exemplaire
Textiles In America 1 exemplaire
Printed Textiles 1 exemplaire
The fisherman's daughter 1 exemplaire
Schloss Seeburg - Calwer Familienbibliothek, 46 Band. Castle Seeburg - Calwer Family Library Book 46) 1 exemplaire
Seaforth. [A novel.] 1 exemplaire
Peggy,: And other tales 1 exemplaire
Behind the scenes in the schoolroom: Being the experiences of a young governess (Collection of British authors.… 1 exemplaire
Colonel Norton 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Montgomery, Florence
- Nom légal
- Montgomery, Florence Harriet
- Date de naissance
- 1843-01-17
- Date de décès
- 1923
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Lieu de naissance
- London, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Professions
- novelist
children's book author - Relations
- Tautphoeus, Baroness Jemima von (cousin)
- Courte biographie
- Florence Montgomery was born in London, England, a daughter of Admiral Alexander Leslie Montgomery, a member of Parliament, and his wife Caroline Rose Campbell. The novelist Baroness Jemima von Tautphoeus was a cousin. Florence wrote stories for the amusement of her younger siblings and friends until the novelist G. J. Whyte-Melville saw one of them at a charity bazaar and advised that it should be published. In 1867, her first book, A Very Simple Story appeared with illustrations by her cousin Sibyl Montgomery Douglas. She wrote for children and also about children for the edification of adults. Her breakthrough to fame came with Misunderstood (1869), which received a new edition in 1873 illustrated by George Du Maurier. Her other works included Thrown Together (1872), The Blue Veil (1883), and Colonel Norton (1895). Misunderstood has been twice adapted into films: the Italian film Incompreso in 1966, and the American film Misunderstood in 1984.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 17
- Membres
- 78
- Popularité
- #229,022
- Évaluation
- 2.9
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 14
- Langues
- 1
The story unfolds with a few breaks for moralizing as a bit of a cautionary tale to parents. It is hard to imagine, especially in today’s world where seven is hardly considered an age of responsibility, that adults could be so obtuse to the suffering and confusion that might go on behind the smile of a child, but in this time and place it does have credibility. My main objection would be that the story is far too sentimental and weepy and a tad predictable. I kept thinking of the Little Eva death scene in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which is so overblown with emotion that it has the opposite effect that it intends.
There is certainly a reason some of these obscure works have been forgotten and buried, and with all apologies to Florence Montgomery, who was writing to another audience entirely, this one does not deserve to be revived. It is more the fact that so few women published at the time that makes this interesting than anything the book itself might have to offer.
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