Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867–1909)
Autor de Miss Minerva and William Green Hill
Obras de Frances Boyd Calhoun
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Calhoun, Frances Boyd
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1867
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1909-06-08
- Lugar de sepultura
- Tennessee
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
CSA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Mecklenburg County, Virginia
- Lugares de residencia
- Tennessee, USA
- Ocupaciones
- writer
- Organizaciones
- United Daughters of the Confederacy
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 82
- Popularidad
- #220,761
- Valoración
- 2.4
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 26
- 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.
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