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Chargement... The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church (1907)par Kate Douglas Wiggin
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) auntieknickers | Jan 20, 2021 |  A lovely, old-fashioned Christmas romance, set in a pacturesque New England village in Maine, The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church was inspired by author Kate Douglas Wiggin's own church, the First Congregational Church of Buxton, Maine - also known as the Tory Hill Meeting House. Apparently the play that is based upon the novel is still performed every year, at that historic church. However that may be, this was a sweet, if fairly slight, little holiday confection, one that I read in an hour, and enjoyed. The only Wiggin I had read previously was the classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, but I have been meaning to read some of the author's Christmas tales, of which there are a few. I'm glad to have finally done so, and recommend this one to anyone in the mood for a sweet, old-fashioned holiday romance, with a New England flavor. (  ) AbigailAdams26 | Dec 24, 2019 | amyem58 | Aug 25, 2014 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The Dorcas society of the little church has set its collective mind to the task of re-dressing the floors -- which means cleaning the pews, too -- and if they cannot have it done by Thanksgiving, why, then, let it be by Christmas. Nancy Wentworth, at thirty-five the most vivacious of them, with her youth undimmed by her work as teacher, throws herself into the work, even the dirty business of scrubbing. She begins to clean the Peabody Pew, which starts Mrs. Sargent into the subject of that worthless Peabody son, long missing."I know there's a Peabody still alive and doing business in Detroit," Mrs. Burbank says then, "for I got his address a week ago, and I wrote asking if he would send a few dollars toward repairing the old church."Nancy turns her face to the wall and silently wipes at the paint of the wainscoting. The blood that has rushed into her cheeks at Mrs. Sargent's jeering reference to Justin Peabody still lingers there, for anyone at all to read.From a literary point of view Wiggin's childhood was most distinctive for her encounter with the novelist Charles Dickens. Her mother and another relative had gone to hear Dickens read in Portland, but Wiggin, aged 11, was thought to be too young to warrant an expensive ticket. The following day, however, she found herself on the same train as Dickens and engaged him in a lively conversation for the course of the journey, an experience which she later detailed in a short memoir, A Child's Journey with Dickens (1912). Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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