Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867–1909)
Autor(a) de Miss Minerva and William Green Hill
Obras de Frances Boyd Calhoun
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Calhoun, Frances Boyd
- Data de nascimento
- 1867
- Data de falecimento
- 1909-06-08
- Local de enterro
- Tennessee
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
CSA - Local de nascimento
- Mecklenburg County, Virginia
- Locais de residência
- Tennessee, USA
- Ocupação
- writer
- Organizações
- United Daughters of the Confederacy
Membros
Resenhas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Membros
- 82
- Popularidade
- #220,761
- Avaliação
- 2.4
- Resenhas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 25
- Idiomas
- 1
It is a comedy of the average folks in a small town in Tennessee at the turn of the last century. Miss Minerva is the rather elderly-acting maiden aunt now settled with a small, active, articulate boy, "six, a-going on seven,": William, her orphaned nephew. Frances Boyd Calhoun captures thoughts, and phrases so naturally it is a sheer delight to read, or read aloud.
Summarized from the publishers' note, the author died only a few months after the publication of her book, her first and her only book. It is a pity to think that her untimely death came just when she gave promise of adding so much to the store of human happiness.
I agree.… (mais)