Vingie E. Roe

Broschiertes Buch

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

Beschreibung

Mercy! shrieked little Francette, her red-rose face aghast, "he will begin before I can bring the help!" Like a flash of flame the maid in her crimson skirt shot up the main way of Fort de Seviere to where the factory lay asleep in the warm spring sun. On its log step, pipe in mouth, young Anders McElroy leaned against the jamb and looked smilingly out upon his settlement. Peace lay softly upon it, from the waters of the small stream to the east where nine canoes lay bottom up upon the pebbly shore, to the great dark wall of the forest shouldering near on three sides. To him ran little Francette, light on her moccasined feet as the wind in the tender pine-tops, her eloquent small hands outstretched and clutching at his sleeve audaciously.

Autor

Vingie E. Lawton Roe was an American novelist and screenwriter. Vingetta Elizabeth Roe was born in Oxford, Kansas, and reared in Oklahoma Territory. She is the daughter of physician Maurice Pool Roe and Clara Castanien Roe. As a child, she was barred from attending school due to her poor vision. She temporarily attended Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1902. She belonged to the Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club, the Sacramento Branch of the League of American Penwomen, and the Authors League of America. Roe created almost thirty books, usually Westerns "with a feminist twist," as well as dozens of novellas published between 1906 and 1930 in periodicals such as Sunset, Munsey's, McCall's, and Collier's. Her stories were also published serially in newspapers. Her debut novel, The Maid of the Whispering Hills (1912), was commended as "a big novel by an author of great promise" in a San Francisco Call review. "I stand for clean literature," she told a group of writers in 1929. "I have never written a dirty sex story and I never will." Her stories have been made into eight silent films and one sound film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1st World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781421893662
• ISBN-10: 1421893665
• Artikelnr.: 25594228