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Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885–1970)

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Noodlot in New Orleans (1948) 312 exemplaren
Steamboat Gothic (1791) 205 exemplaren
Joy Street (1777) 184 exemplaren
Blue Camellia (1957) 147 exemplaren
Came a Cavalier (1947) 140 exemplaren
The Chess Players (1746) 136 exemplaren
The River Road (1945) 133 exemplaren
The Royal Box (1954) 127 exemplaren
Station Wagon in Spain (1959) 126 exemplaren
The Heritage (1777) 105 exemplaren
Victorine (1656) 102 exemplaren
I, the King (1966) 96 exemplaren
Madame Castel's Lodger (1962) 84 exemplaren
The Explorer (1964) 79 exemplaren
Therese: Saint of a Little Way (1937) 69 exemplaren
Crescent Carnival (1942) 65 exemplaren
Also the Hills (1943) 56 exemplaren
Fielding's Folly (1940) 41 exemplaren
All That Glitters (1941) 40 exemplaren
Queen Anne's Lace (1930) 34 exemplaren
Honor Bright (1936) 33 exemplaren
Senator Marlowe's Daughter (1933) 31 exemplaren
Three ways of love (1963) 29 exemplaren
Bernadette of Lourdes (1953) 29 exemplaren
Tongues of fire (1966) 28 exemplaren
The Great Tradition (1900) 25 exemplaren
Roses in December (1960) 25 exemplaren
The Safe Bridge (1934) 23 exemplaren
The land of stones and saints (1957) 22 exemplaren
Parts Unknown (1938) 21 exemplaren
The Grace of Guadalupe (1941) 20 exemplaren
Restless Lady (1962) 19 exemplaren
The Career of David Noble (1961) 19 exemplaren
The Old Gray Homestead (1973) 19 exemplaren
Larry Vincent (1953) 18 exemplaren
Lady Blanche Farm (1964) 17 exemplaren
The Ambassadress (1946) 15 exemplaren
If Ever I Cease to Love (1943) 14 exemplaren
Once on Esplanade (1947) 13 exemplaren
All this is Louisiana (1950) 13 exemplaren
Along a Little Way (1962) 9 exemplaren
Guadalupe to Lourdes (1953) 7 exemplaren
Christmas gift 5 exemplaren
Silver seas and golden cities (1970) 5 exemplaren
Vail D'Alvery (1947) 5 exemplaren
Sylvia Cary (1962) 2 exemplaren
The King 1 exemplaar
Kongelosjen 1 exemplaar
Letters From a Senator's Wife (1924) 1 exemplaar
Three novels 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum
1885-07-21
Overlijdensdatum
1970-07-03
Graflocatie
The Oxbow, Newbury, Vermont, USA
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Plaats van overlijden
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Woonplaatsen
Washington, D.C., USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Newbury, Vermont, USA
Opleiding
privately educated
Beroepen
writer
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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,.… (meer)
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DinadansFriend | 2 andere besprekingen | 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 andere bespreking | 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.)'… (meer)
 
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muumi | Aug 13, 2019 |

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