Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867–1909)
Autor von Miss Minerva and William Green Hill
Werke von Frances Boyd Calhoun
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Wissenswertes
- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Calhoun, Frances Boyd
- Geburtstag
- 1867
- Todestag
- 1909-06-08
- Begräbnisort
- Tennessee
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
CSA - Geburtsort
- Mecklenburg County, Virginia
- Wohnorte
- Tennessee, USA
- Berufe
- writer
- Organisationen
- United Daughters of the Confederacy
Mitglieder
Rezensionen
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Statistikseite
- Werke
- 2
- Mitglieder
- 82
- Beliebtheit
- #220,761
- Bewertung
- 2.4
- Rezensionen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 26
- Sprachen
- 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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