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Jane Ellison #2
Hickory Hill
Jane Ellison's dreams have come true -- her family has bought a beautiful Indiana farm, giving her a dozen new outlets for her energy and 4-H club training.
- GenresYoung Adult
206 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1955
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Anne Emery
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Anne Emery was born Anne Eleanor McGuigan, in Fargo, North Dakota, and moved to Evanston, Illinois, when she was nine years old. Miss McGuigan attended Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University. Following her graduation from college, her father, a university professor, took the family of five children abroad for a year, where they visited his birthplace in Northern Ireland, as well as the British Isles, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Miss McGuigan spent nine months studying at the University of Grenoble in France. She taught seventh and eighth grades for four years in the Evanston Schools, and fourth and fifth grades for six more years after her marriage to John Emery. She retired from teaching to care for her husband and five children, Mary, Kate, Joan, Robert, and Martha.
Anne Emery wrote books and short stories for teen girls throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Her understanding of the lives of teenaged girls creates believable stories and characters that are readable and re-readable!
Anne Emery was born Anne Eleanor McGuigan, in Fargo, North Dakota, and moved to Evanston, Illinois, when she was nine years old. Miss McGuigan attended Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University. Following her graduation from college, her father, a university professor, took the family of five children abroad for a year, where they visited his birthplace in Northern Ireland, as well as the British Isles, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Miss McGuigan spent nine months studying at the University of Grenoble in France. She taught seventh and eighth grades for four years in the Evanston Schools, and fourth and fifth grades for six more years after her marriage to John Emery. She retired from teaching to care for her husband and five children, Mary, Kate, Joan, Robert, and Martha.
Anne Emery wrote books and short stories for teen girls throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Her understanding of the lives of teenaged girls creates believable stories and characters that are readable and re-readable!
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February 14, 2021
C-. fiction, teen, 4-J, teen romance set in country, sequel to County Fair, 1950s, from stash, discard
January 9, 2017
DNF at 60 pages.
This is actually way, way better than I expected it would be. I've sampled the modern equivalent of this kind of thing, mostly in the form of Canterwood Crest, and... hoo boy, it's painful. This is far more bearable than that. Yes, Jane has no problems except the very most first-worldy variety, and she's kind of a bland character, and there's a lot of blatant wish-fulfillment. But the dialogue and prose are actually not that bad. I mean yes, there is this persistent problem where the transitions between scenes are too fluid (often, there's not even a paragraph break), making it hard to keep track of the time frame the events happen in. But on a sentence level, there's not much wrong with it. And there's no petty, forced conflict, at least not so far. Even if the problems Jane has aren't very serious, they at least seem like real problems someone might have, and they arise naturally from the situation. I certainly would never go back to this and read it for fun (there's a reason I didn't finish it, obviously), but it serves its purpose in a fairly harmless way.
This is actually way, way better than I expected it would be. I've sampled the modern equivalent of this kind of thing, mostly in the form of Canterwood Crest, and... hoo boy, it's painful. This is far more bearable than that. Yes, Jane has no problems except the very most first-worldy variety, and she's kind of a bland character, and there's a lot of blatant wish-fulfillment. But the dialogue and prose are actually not that bad. I mean yes, there is this persistent problem where the transitions between scenes are too fluid (often, there's not even a paragraph break), making it hard to keep track of the time frame the events happen in. But on a sentence level, there's not much wrong with it. And there's no petty, forced conflict, at least not so far. Even if the problems Jane has aren't very serious, they at least seem like real problems someone might have, and they arise naturally from the situation. I certainly would never go back to this and read it for fun (there's a reason I didn't finish it, obviously), but it serves its purpose in a fairly harmless way.
February 18, 2013
Re-read February 2013.
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