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Frances Parkinson Keyes

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in Charlottesville, VA, The United States

July 21, 1885

Died

July 03, 1970

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Frances Parkinson Keyes was an American author who wrote about her life as the wife of a U.S. Senator and novels set in New England, Louisiana, and Europe. A convert to Roman Catholicism, her later works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. Her last name rhymes with "skies," not "keys." ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 3,323 ratings · 421 reviews · 141 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dinner at Antoine's 3.69 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 1948 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joy Street 3.72 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1950 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Old Gray Homestead 3.86 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1919 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steamboat Gothic 3.79 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1952 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crescent Carnival 3.99 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1942 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Came A Cavalier 3.97 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1947 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River Road 3.97 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1945 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Camellia 3.74 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 1957 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Royal Box 3.47 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1954 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chess Players 3.53 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1960 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Then she felt herself, she said, to enter into the very bosom of God, where she was transformed into her Beloved, so completely that not all the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil could ever separate her from His love...She gave them a conviction that she could find no pleasure on earth except in the contemplation of the divine mercy.”
― Frances Parkinson Keyes

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“Washington is certainly not a city of restaurants, any more than it is a city of theaters. It is a city of official cocktail parties and excellent home-cooked dinners with wonderful conversation afterward and that provides all the entertaining anyone needs. It's also a city of whispering, maneuvering, tattling, declaiming - a city that's still having growing pains, that naive in spite of its imagined sophistication, that's beautiful in the same way an adolescent is beautiful, though he insists on pretending to a maturity and a mellowness that he hasn't achieved.”
― Frances Parkinson Keyes, Joy Street

tags: washington-dc

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“Afterwards, he gave me a diamond wristwatch, so that I'd never be late to the theatre, and for Christmas, a ruby brooch. (The rubies came from Aristan, too - they must throw precious stones around like pebbles in that country.)”
― Frances Parkinson Keyes, The Royal Box

tags: being-romanced, gifts, jewellery

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