Elizabeth Frances Corbett (1887–1981)
Autor de The Young Mrs. Meigs
Sobre El Autor
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Obras de Elizabeth Frances Corbett
The richer harvest 4 copias
After five o'clock, 3 copias
Hotel Belvedere; a novel 3 copias
In Miss Armstrong's Room 3 copias
The Red Haired Lady 3 copias
Professor Preston at home 3 copias
The Graper Girls 2 copias
Hidden island 2 copias
The queen's holiday 2 copias
Excuse Me, Mrs. Meigs 2 copias
The crossroads 2 copias
Mr. Underhill's progress, 2 copias
The vanished Helga 1 copia
Light of Other Days 1 copia
Mr. and Mrs. Meigs 1 copia
Beth and Ernestine Graper 1 copia
Growing Up With the Grapers 1 copia
The Graper Girls Go to College 1 copia
Early summer, 1 copia
Faye's Folly 1 copia
Lady with parasol 1 copia
Anniversary, a novel 1 copia
Ladies' day, a novel 1 copia
Portrait of Isabelle 1 copia
Eve and Christopher 1 copia
The Continuing City 1 copia
The Wainwright inheritance 1 copia
Immortal Helen, a novel 1 copia
The house across the river 1 copia
The Duke's daughter 1 copia
The head of Apollo 1 copia
Hamilton Terrace 1 copia
The far down 1 copia
The constant sex 1 copia
Golden grain 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1887-09-30
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1981-01-24
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Aurora, Illinois, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - Educación
- University of Wisconsin
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
short story writer
playwright
biographer
poet - Biografía breve
- Elizabeth Corbett wrote romantic and historical novels aimed at children and young women, described once as "nice novels about nice people." She was the oldest of three children of Richard W. Corbett and Isabelle Adkins, and grew up living at the Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Milwaukee, among veterans of the Civil War. She attended West Division High School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1910. She wrote and published her first three novels in Milwaukee and then moved to Greenwich Village in New York City to pursue her literary career. She produced about 50 books, some of them extremely popular, including several revolving around a woman named Mrs. Meigs. She also wrote poems and short stories that appeared in Century, Scribner’s, McCall’s, and Theater Guild Magazines. In 1930, she published If It Takes All Summer: The Life Story of Ulysses S. Grant. She also wrote a review, "Uncle Tom Is Dead,” in 1931, and the following year dramatized her novel Young Mrs. Meigs for the stage.
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 50
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 109
- Popularidad
- #178,011
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 3
Like its predecessors, Beth and Ernestine Graper is a lighthearted read - a friend has described reading this series as being akin somehow to wallowing in a vat of marshmallow fluff, and I would tend to agree - one that skims happily along the surface of its subjects' lives, without ever delving too deep. The Graper Girls are daughters of immense privilege, living in a happy world that seems wholly untouched by the economic crises going on at the time (1936) the book was published. Nary a mention is made of the Great Depression, or of the drastic effects it had upon the nation and the world, and while the girls do encounter some financial realities - Marian discovers it is no easy thing to make do on Tubby's salary - these are small, "luxury" problems, easily solved by appealing to their father. The notions of gender and of romance that are presented are conventional, and are not significantly challenged in the story. Although the equal intelligence of women is championed by all three of the Grapers (one of the few progressive themes in Corbett's work), in areas such as financial and emotional well-being it is understood that women need to be looked after by men - even the independent Ernie, with her dreams of being a working girl in New York City, has her family wealth and connections to protect her, and the reader never gets the sense that her sojourn as a department store employee will be anything other than temporary - and all three of the girls are married by the end of the book. Despite its shallowness, or perhaps in part because of it, this is an entertaining read, painting a fascinating portrait, perhaps not of how women lived, but of how they desired to live, or were encouraged to live, during the 1930s. Having followed along with Marian, Ernestine and Beth since their high school days, the reader is rewarded with a happy ending for each. Recommended primarily to readers who have enjoyed the previous Graper Girls books, as well as to anyone interested in vintage American girls' series from the first half of the twentieth-century.… (más)