Elizabeth Prentiss (1818–1878)
Autor(a) de Stepping Heavenward
About the Author
Image credit: Drawing of Elizabeth Prentiss from the frontispiece of The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss By Provided by the Wheaton College Archives - From the frontispiece of The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, compiled by her husband George Lewis Prentiss (New York: Randolph & Co., 1882), PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31574956
Obras de Elizabeth Prentiss
Six Little Princesses And What They Turned Into And Other Fairy Tales (1907) by Prentiss, Elizabeth published by… (2010) 5 cópias
Nidworth and His Three Magic Wands 2 cópias
An Elizabeth Prentiss Treasury: Stepping Heavenward & The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (2013) 2 cópias
Little Susy's six birthdays 1 exemplar(es)
Pemaquid: a story of old times in New England 1 exemplar(es)
The story Lizzie told 1 exemplar(es)
The Percys 1 exemplar(es)
Stepping Heavenward, Christian Victory in Daily Living, for Men and Women, Young and Old (1996) 1 exemplar(es)
Six little princesses 1 exemplar(es)
Snug Corner Series: Six Little Princesses and What They Turned Into. And Other Fairy Tales. 1 exemplar(es)
The History of Finette; or, A Doll's Fortunes. 1 exemplar(es)
Herman, the Little Preacher 1 exemplar(es)
The Greylock House 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1818-10-26
- Data de falecimento
- 1878-08-13
- Local de enterro
- Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, Vermont, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Portland, Maine, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Dorset, Vermont, USA
- Locais de residência
- New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 2,413
- Popularidade
- #10,627
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Resenhas
- 14
- ISBNs
- 124
- Idiomas
- 2
- Favorito
- 2
Stepping Heavenward was published in 1869 by Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss, daughter of the Rev. Edward Payson, D.D. and wife of Presbyterian pastor George Prentiss. She was a loving mother and homemaker and desired to bring to her readers, "patience, fidelity, hope, and all goodness by showing how trust in God and loving obedience to His blessed will brighten the darkest paths and make a heaven upon earth."
The story follows the journey of Katherine as she steps into young womanhood on her sixteenth birthday to her later grown up years in her late 30s. She learns that true satisfaction is found in serving others and allowing herself to be used by God as a wife, mother, and homemaker---and helper in her community as God leads her.
After finishing this book, I craved more spiritually-minded reading. It was so encouraging---the author exposed the heart of a young woman to perfection. We think of Victorians as so pious but people in her day were dealing with the same heart issues and questions about God that we do today.
I actually picked up several book suggestions from reading, Stepping Heavenward, including Thomas a Kempis', The Imitation of Christ. I was blessed to find an antique copy of it at our library book sale just a day or two after putting it on my wish list.
Stepping Heavenward is a book I'll come back to again and again. I can't wait to share it with my daughters, when the time is right, and I'm so encouraged by the examples of Godly women, both in Mrs. Prentiss and in the characters she's created.… (mais)