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Dorothy Evelyn Smith (1893–1969)

Auteur van O, The Brave Music (British Library Women Writers)

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Werken van Dorothy Evelyn Smith

Miss Plum and Miss Penny (1959) 77 exemplaren
The Lovely Day (1957) 24 exemplaren
Lost Hill (1952) 12 exemplaren
Beyond the gates (1956) 8 exemplaren
Huffley fair (1944) 7 exemplaren
My lamp is bright 5 exemplaren
Brief Flower (1966) 5 exemplaren
Proud citadel (1947) 5 exemplaren
The Blue Dress (1962) 4 exemplaren
He Went For a Walk (1954) 4 exemplaren
Gli anni teneri 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum
1893
Overlijdensdatum
1969
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
UK
Geboorteplaats
Derby, England, UK
Beroepen
novelist
Korte biografie
Dorothy Evelyn Smith was born in Derby, England, the daughter of a methodist parson. She first began to write successfully for English magazines while her husband was serving in the First World War. Thereafter her short stories and articles steadily reached a wide market, though her work was subject to interruptions from her growing daughter and son and their prodigious number of pets. In 1939, when most English magazines went off the market, Mrs. Smith began her first novel, interrupted this time by her war work. Often she wrote "on the end of the kitchen table with bombs falling around the house," and part of her first novel was finished while she was confined to bed with an injured leg.

Now that peace has come, Mrs. Smith writes in her own small study in the three-hundred-year-old cottage in Essex which the Smiths have recently purchased. Lost Hill is the third of her novels to be issued in America. The first two, My Lamp Is Bright and O, The Brave Music were enthusiastically received there and in England. - From the dust jacket of Lost Hill.

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Ruan Ashley ens transporta a la infantesa, i per mitjà dels seus records, situats a Anglaterra, a finals del segle XIX i principis del segle XX , ens va ensenyant la vida, la seva, la nostra... Un personatge molt rodó, i una narració amb unes descripcions fantàstiques dels llocs físics, dels sentiments, dels que la rodeja (alegria i dolor, present i futur), de les seves pors, . Com he gaudit! Quina esplèndida música, quina meravellosa lectura!
 
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Montserratmv | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 17, 2024 |
¡Oh, qué espléndida la música de los días de la infancia, cuando todo era inmenso, el mundo entero era un paraíso por explorar y el paso del tiempo, una sucesión infinita de descubrimientos emocionantes!

Ruan Ashley rememora el tambor lejano de aquellos años previos a la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuando era una niña inteligente y soñadora que corría por los hermosos páramos junto a su querido David, lejos de la estricta mirada de su padre, pastor de la iglesia inconformista. Ahí sufre los primeros embates de la vida adulta, pero también descubre el significado de la amistad y el amor.

Escrita entre las bombas que caían sobre Reino Unido durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Oh, qué espléndida música no es solo una excepcional novela de formación con unos personajes inolvidables, también es un homenaje al tiempo de la inocencia, tanto a nivel social como personal; un mundo perdido para siempre.
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bibliotecayamaguchi | 1 andere bespreking | Aug 9, 2023 |
Too many characters that I just couldn't connect with.
 
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Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
The story of a young girl who is struggling to retain her childhood freedom while being forced to make adult decisions. Set in Yorkshire.
 
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dulciepulsie | Feb 10, 2010 |

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Statistieken

Werken
13
Leden
247
Populariteit
#92,310
Waardering
4.2
Besprekingen
4
ISBNs
10
Talen
1

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