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Cornelia Meigs (1884–1973)

Författare till Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women

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Wild geese flying (1957) 136 exemplar
The Covered Bridge (1936) 68 exemplar
The Windy Hill (1921) 64 exemplar
The willow whistle (1931) 45 exemplar
Wind in the chimney (1934) 44 exemplar
The Scarlet Oak (1938) 42 exemplar
The Island of Appledore (1917) 38 exemplar
Clearing Weather (1928) 35 exemplar
The Trade Wind (1927) 27 exemplar
Master Simon's Garden (1937) 27 exemplar
Fair Wind to Virginia (1955) 23 exemplar
The Dutch colt; (1952) 17 exemplar
Mystery at the Red House (1961) 15 exemplar
The Wonderful Locomotive (1928) 14 exemplar
Mother Makes Christmas (1940) 12 exemplar
The Two Arrows (1949) 10 exemplar
The New Moon (1924) 10 exemplar
The pool of stars (2008) 10 exemplar
As the Crow Flies (1927) 8 exemplar
Mounted messenger (1943) 7 exemplar
Vanished Island (1941) 4 exemplar
Rain on the roof 3 exemplar
The Pirate of Jasper Peak (2018) 2 exemplar
Hill of Adventure (2018) 1 exemplar

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Unga kvinnor (1868) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor26,256 exemplar
The New Junior Classics Volume 08: Stories From History (1938) — Bidragsgivare — 197 exemplar
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The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 06: Harvest of Holidays (1900) — Bidragsgivare — 152 exemplar
Writing Books for Boys and Girls (1952) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor5 exemplar
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Wings of Courage and Other Stories for Girl Scouts (1941) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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Andra namn
Aldon, Adair
Meigs, Cornelia Lynde
Födelsedag
1884-12-06
Avled
1973-09-10
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Rock Island, Illinois, USA
Dödsort
Havre De Grace, Maryland, USA
Bostadsorter
Davenport, Iowa, USA
Keokuk, Iowa, USA
Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
Brandon, Vermont, USA
Utbildning
Bryn Mawr College (AB|1908)
Yrken
professor
historian of children's literature
literary critic
writer of children's books
Priser och utmärkelser
Newbery Medal 1934
Newbery Honor Medal 1922, 1928, 1933
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
Kort biografi
Cornelia Lynde Meigs was the fifth daughter of six children. She attended Bryn Mawr College and after graduating in 1908, she taught English at St. Katharine’s School in Davenport, Iowa, until 1913. While in Davenport, she wrote her first book, The Kingdom of the Winding Road, a collection of fairy tales. She frequently submitted short stories and plays for publication and wrote many of her books under the pseudonym Adair Aldon. In 1932, Meigs joined the faculty of the English department at Bryn Mawr, teaching English composition and creative writing until 1950 and eventually rising to the rank of full professor. She also served as a civilian employee of the U.S. War Department from 1942 to 1945.

Professor Meigs became an acknowledged authority on children’s literature, which was then becoming a new specialty. She wrote more than 40 books for young people, often with her students and nieces and nephews in mind. Her biography of Louisa May Alcott, Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women, received much critical acclaim. Prof. Meigs received numerous awards throughout her extensive writing career, including a Drama League prize in 1915 for her play The Steadfast Princess; three Newbery Honor Medals for her fiction; and the Newbery Medal for her Alcott biography.

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Barred from his family home-stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather's land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the lumber mills in Saint Louis. Filled with stories of raft hands and river pilots, this fast-paced novel has all the momentum of the great Mississippi.
 
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PlumfieldCH | 6 andra recensioner | Dec 26, 2023 |
This biographical novel traces the fascinating life of Louisa May Alcott from her happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston to her success as a writer of such classics as "Little Women."
 
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PlumfieldCH | 13 andra recensioner | Dec 11, 2023 |
As much as I enjoyed Cornelia Meigs’ 1922 honor (The Windy Hill) this one didn’t have quite the same effect. I still like her writing style, but I think it’s better suited for younger characters. She doesn't age them convincingly... or something. This book is centered around older teenagers, and I never got particularly attached to them. The action was good and the story was somewhat compelling. However, if I don’t fall for the characters and their plight, then the story is kind of a wash. It falls in that "eh" range for me.

Edit: I noticed some criticisms of racism and sexism against this book, and wanted to say I didn't get that feeling. (Granted, I may have missed something while I was "eh"ing through.) I wouldn't call the book completely clear of sexism or racism, but Cornelia Meigs is pretty good at making her characters have opinions, and keeping the narrator tone neutral. The characters are travelling across the world, and need adventure. They encounter villains of different races and friends of different races. Indians (of India) are the main bad guys before they finally hit China. I think that's more due to geography and trying to create some action. The point of the book is that these plucky teenagers want to prove themselves as a relevant force to the Chinese to save the shipyard, and the Chinese are the cool kids on the block. I didn’t see anything specific in the way that other early Newbery books have bugged me. As for sexism… well, I was pleased with how opinionated (borderline annoying, even) the few women characters were. No obedience here. That suited me fine for a book staged in the 1700s.
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Allyoopsi | 2 andra recensioner | Jun 22, 2022 |
I’m not a big fan of Little Women (heinous, I know), so I wasn’t too excited to be reading a biography of Louisa May Alcott. This read as a pretty disjointed biography on top of that. I get that the information collected was probably a little rough around the edges, but the fact/story aspect was presented a little bizarrely. I found a groove after the book discussed Little Women being written, so I imagine that’s when her life was more accurately documented, and that's when the author had more information to mold. Either way, I didn’t like how the earlier years were done. And the last chapter was cruel in tricking me with a title of “happy endings” (or something like that) and then killing lots of people. Sisters, dads, everybody dies! Happy indeed! Bah.

This is not a bad book, and I've liked Cornelia Meigs' other works. I'm a more factual person, and I don't get along with biographies that have a fictionalized feel to them.
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Allyoopsi | 13 andra recensioner | Jun 22, 2022 |

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Medlemmar
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Popularitet
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Betyg
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Recensioner
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ISBN
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