O. Douglas (1877–1948)
Auteur de Penny Plain
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) O. Douglas is the full name of this author: the initial O is not short for any other name. Her fiction was all published under the name O. Douglas, while her autobiography Farewell to Priorsford and a Buchan family memoir Unforgettable, Unforgotten were published under her real name Anna Buchan.
If your book appears on this page, and is not by the author also known as Anna Buchan, please edit your information to include the author's full forename, rather than the surname and first initial only. Your book should then appear on the correct author page.
Crédit image: Anna Buchan, circa 1940s
Œuvres de O. Douglas
Oeuvres associées
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Buchan, Anna Masterton
- Autres noms
- Douglas, O. (pseudonym)
- Date de naissance
- 1877-03-24
- Date de décès
- 1948-11-24
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Andrew's Cemetery Peebles, Scottish Borders, Scotland
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Pathhead, Scotland, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Peebles, Scotland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Perth, Scotland, UK
Broughton, Peeblesshire, Scotland, UK - Études
- Hutcheson's Grammar School, Glasgow
- Professions
- novelist
- Relations
- Buchan, John (brother)
Buchan, Susan Grosvenor (sister-in-law)
Buchan, John Norman Stuart (nephew)
Buchan, James (great-nephew)
Buchan, William James de l'Aigle (nephew)
Buchan, Ursula (great-niece) - Notice de désambigüisation
- O. Douglas is the full name of this author: the initial O is not short for any other name. Her fiction was all published under the name O. Douglas, while her autobiography Farewell to Priorsford and a Buchan family memoir Unforgettable, Unforgotten were published under her real name Anna Buchan.
If your book appears on this page, and is not by the author also known as Anna Buchan, please edit your information to include the author's full forename, rather than the surname and first initial only. Your book should then appear on the correct author page.
Membres
Critiques
Vous aimerez peut-être aussi
Auteurs associés
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 18
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 589
- Popularité
- #42,598
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 21
- ISBN
- 95
- Favoris
- 3
A mother, daughter, and niece are forced to sell their beautiful estate and buy a little house up on the coast in Scotland. Nicole, the daughter, tends to always see the sunny side of life and enjoys making friends of all sorts of people.
She even manages to tactfully improve some of her neighbors... one middle-aged, austere spinster is in desperate need of a little "prettying up" for both her house and her clothes. I like a lot of Nicole's philosophy about this kind of thing; she says, "You simply don't know how much harm is done by good women not knowing how to dress. I remember as a child, when I helped my mother to entertain Mothers' Unions and Girls' Friendlies and things like that, wondering why the best people--meaning the most serious, good people--nearly always had badly hung skirts! And to-day, when clothes are so easy and so suitable and so varied, it's conservatism run mad not to wear what other people are wearing."
And in the end, she does, of course, get the stiff Miss Symington to pay moderate attention to looking nice, and to let a little beauty into her home.
But this is just one example of Nicole's sphere of influence. She makes friends with an orphan boy, a reclusive mountaineer, and the hassled young families of the town. Her cousin Barbara is more exclusive in her friends and inclined to yearn for past glories. But not in an irritating way... more in the way that makes you feel a bit sorry for her and still basically respect her.
The two girls get very different resolutions to their stories, and neither one is strictly blissful... indeed, this book had lots of varying shades of happy and sad. I felt it was a little unfair of the author to set up such a sweet, happy tale and not let it stay happy. But, c'est la vie.… (plus d'informations)