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Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885–1970)

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Dinner at Antoine's (1948) 312 exemplar
Huset vid Mississippi (1791) 205 exemplar
Joy Street (1777) 184 exemplar
Blue Camellia (1957) 147 exemplar
Came a Cavalier (1947) 140 exemplar
The Chess Players (1746) 136 exemplar
The River Road (1945) 133 exemplar
The Royal Box (1954) 127 exemplar
Station Wagon in Spain (1959) 126 exemplar
The Heritage (1777) 105 exemplar
Victorine (1656) 102 exemplar
I, the King (1966) 96 exemplar
Madame Castel's Lodger (1962) 84 exemplar
The Explorer (1964) 79 exemplar
Therese: Saint of a Little Way (1937) 69 exemplar
Crescent Carnival (1942) 65 exemplar
Also the Hills (1943) 56 exemplar
Fielding's Folly (1940) 41 exemplar
All That Glitters (1941) 40 exemplar
Queen Anne's Lace (1930) 34 exemplar
Honor Bright (1936) 33 exemplar
Senator Marlowe's Daughter (1933) 31 exemplar
Three ways of love (1963) 29 exemplar
Bernadette of Lourdes (1953) 29 exemplar
Tongues of fire (1966) 28 exemplar
The Great Tradition (1900) 25 exemplar
Roses in December (1960) 25 exemplar
The Safe Bridge (1934) 23 exemplar
The land of stones and saints (1957) 22 exemplar
Parts Unknown (1938) 21 exemplar
The Grace of Guadalupe (1941) 20 exemplar
Restless Lady (1962) 19 exemplar
The Career of David Noble (1961) 19 exemplar
The Old Gray Homestead (1973) 19 exemplar
Larry Vincent (1953) 18 exemplar
Lady Blanche Farm (1964) 17 exemplar
The Ambassadress (1946) 15 exemplar
If Ever I Cease to Love (1943) 14 exemplar
Once on Esplanade (1947) 13 exemplar
All this is Louisiana (1950) 13 exemplar
Along a Little Way (1962) 9 exemplar
Guadalupe to Lourdes (1953) 7 exemplar
Christmas gift 5 exemplar
Vail D'Alvery (1947) 5 exemplar
Sylvia Cary (1962) 2 exemplar
The King 1 exemplar
Kongelosjen 1 exemplar
Three novels 1 exemplar

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Födelsedag
1885-07-21
Avled
1970-07-03
Begravningsplats
The Oxbow, Newbury, Vermont, USA
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Dödsort
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Bostadsorter
Washington, D.C., USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Newbury, Vermont, USA
Utbildning
privately educated
Yrken
writer
Kort biografi
Frances Parkinson Wheeler split her time in childhood between Boston, Massachusetts, and the village of Newbury, Vermont. She was educated privately and traveled widely throughout Europe. In 1904, at the age of 18, she married Henry Wilder Keyes, a politician who eventually became governor and then U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, and the couple lived on his family estate near Haverhill with their three sons.

After her husband's death in 1938, Frances Parkinson Keyes settled in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Her career as a writer began with the publication of her first novel, Old Gray Homestead, in 1919. During the 1920s, she wrote a series called "Letters from a Senator's Wife," for Good Housekeeping Magazine, where she served as a contributing editor; the columns were later collected and published in book form. Keyes also wrote about her experiences as a political wife in two memoirs, Capital Kaleidoscope: The Story of a Washington Hostess (1937) and All Flags Flying (published posthumously in 1972), as well as a novel, All That Glitters (1941).

Frances converted to Catholicism and this experience fueled much of her writing on religious subjects, both fiction and nonfiction.

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Paul Morphy was the first American Chess player to go to Europe and challenge the first class players. After defeating General Winfield Scott when he was only nine years old, Morphy was the player to beat if you sought distnction in the game on the American Scene. No one established a reputation for doing so. Morphy became a lawyer in New Orleans prior to the Civil War. He toured europe playing and winning matches against the strongest players available in England, Germany and France. Keyes, noting that Morphy never married, and died young, gives him an unhappy love affair,.… (mer)
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DinadansFriend | 2 andra recensioner | Nov 20, 2023 |
two S. Am sts, Rose & Mariana
 
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SrMaryLea | Aug 22, 2023 |
I can forgive the hokey writing and dialogue because it reflects a different era than today. However, I feel it fair to critique the plot and characters.
The protagonist is a bit of a wet rag in the beginning, just teaching at a local college and living with a cousin, sort of stringing along a local girl with noncommittal interactions. Then he gets money (more on that in a moment) and a Sabbatical, plus a bit of a mystery to pursue and suddenly he's a go-getting, take charge, fall in love at the drop of a hat kind of guy. I didn't see it. In some moments he's seemingly thick (like getting money together and driving to the middle of nowhere to meet men he already suspects are cons) and then others he has amazing clarity of mind (deducing where intriguing books are from and how they came to be where they are). The romance is also sudden and ridiculous, like a 30 year old man suddenly falling for the young Spanish girl after a couple of small talk conversations.
His inheritance: a bachelor uncle leaves him a mansion and funds, but the way the protagonist throws around money to help his new in-laws in Spain recover their property and then some...was his uncle Bill Gates or Kanye West? because that's the kind of money he's spending, even considering inflation. No way he inherited so much money he went from unable to afford his own apartment to almost literally throwing money at people for any and every cause.

The character didn't develop logically, the mystery didn't unfold consistently (lots of slow moments then tumbling ahead quickly), nor was it particularly inventive or intriguing. Too bad. Seemed like it could have been a hidden gem.
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LDVoorberg | 1 annan recension | Nov 22, 2020 |
The Old Gray Homestead doesn't have the extensive notes on F.P. Keyes's creative process and on-site research that I have come to expect from her books. It's her first book (1919) -- very well written, set in Vermont, drawing upon her life experience of 30-some years, 15 in rural New England. It reminds me of something by Gene Stratton Porter -- a poor farm boy / rich girl romance similar to Laddie, A True Blue Story but thankfully lacking the self-conscious whimsy of the latter; Austin calls his lady by her name, Laddie refers to "the Princess" until ... well. Far too often. Perhaps it's more like something by L. M. Montgomery. Keyes's characters would be at home and welcomed in Avonlea. My personal favourite minor character is a gossipy old lady by the name of Mrs Elliott, who sometimes had me laughing out loud. Here she is on the phone: '"Yes, this is Mrs Elliot -- Maybe if some of the folks on the line that's taken their receivers down so's they can know who I'm talkin' to an' what I'm sayin' will hang up, you can hear me a little more plain." (This timely remark resulted in several little clicks.)'… (mer)
 
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muumi | Aug 13, 2019 |

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Verk
78
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Medlemmar
3,205
Popularitet
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Betyg
½ 3.4
Recensioner
22
ISBN
127
Favoritmärkt
5

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