California Sketches (eBook, ePUB) - P. Fitzgerald, O.
2,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Sofort per Download lieferbar
  • Format: ePub

Dick was a Californian. We made his acquaintance in Sonora about a month before Christmas, Anno Domini 1855. This is the way it happened:
At the request of a number of families, the lady who presided in the curious little parsonage near the church on the hill-side had started a school for little girls. The public schools might do for the boys, but were too mixed for their sisters--so they thought. Boys could rough it --they were a rough set, anyway--but the girls must he raised according to the traditions of the old times and the old homes. That was the view taken of the matter then, and…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
Dick was a Californian. We made his acquaintance in Sonora about a month before Christmas, Anno Domini 1855. This is the way it happened:

At the request of a number of families, the lady who presided in the curious little parsonage near the church on the hill-side had started a school for little girls. The public schools might do for the boys, but were too mixed for their sisters--so they thought. Boys could rough it --they were a rough set, anyway--but the girls must he raised according to the traditions of the old times and the old homes. That was the view taken of the matter then, and from that day to this the average California girl has been superior to the average California boy. The boy gets his bias from the street; the girl, from her mother at home. The boy plunges into the life that surges around him; the girl only feels the touch of its waves as they break upon the embankments of home. The boy gets more of the father; the girl gets more of the mother. This may explain their relative superiority. The school for girls was started on condition that it should be free, the proposed teacher refusing all compensation. That part of the arrangement was a failure, for at the end of the first month every little girl brought a handful of money, and laid it on the teacher's desk. It must have been a concerted matter.
Autorenporträt
Oscar Penn Fitzgerald was a Methodist minister, reporter, and teacher who lived from August 24, 1829, to August 5, 1911. Between 1867 and 1871, he was California's Superintendent of Public Instruction. In 1890, he was made a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was born on August 24, 1829, in Caswell County, North Carolina, not far from Ruffin. His parents were Richard Fitzgerald and Martha Jones Hooper. Fitzgerald came from a long line of people in Nottoway County, Virginia, where many of his cousins lived in good stead. He married Sarah Banks of Georgia in 1855. In his early years, he went to a normal country school like most kids did at that time. The Oak Grove Academy in Rockingham County, North Carolina, was his first real chance to learn. The man who taught him, Booker Doss, was very strict, but he taught him a lot. For some reason, Fitzgerald couldn't help but go to Lynchburg, Virginia, when he was thirteen to work for the Lynchburg Republican. There, it was proven that he was very good at writing. By the time he was twenty, he was already known as a good writer in the area.