A Clouded Star

by Anne Parrish

A story out of the days of the Underground Railroad, of the heroic Moses of her people, Harriet Tubman, who returned again and again to take out groups of terrified slaves who'd dared for a moment, but who would have died- or been retaken- except for her valor and inspiration. A new angle on ""Let My People Go"", as through the story of an old Negro come back to see the white girl who'd given him the impulse to escape, we follow the adventures of one small band. From various plantations in Maryland, by tortuous route to Delaware, to Philadelphia, New York, finally to safety in Canada, these frightened men and women and children made their way by night, often half starved, half clothed, half frozen- kept going sometimes by threats, sometimes by love in the guidance of "Moses." The story is told in rhythmic prose that holds the cadences of a saga.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1948

About the author

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Three-time Newbery Honor winner, Anne Parrish came from a distinguished and artistic Philadelphia family. Her younger brother was author Dillwyn Parrish. Parrish trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, although she later chose a career in literature. In 1923 her first romantic novel, Pocketful of Poses, was published simultaneously to her children's book, Knee-High to a Grasshopper, illustrated by her brother Dillwyn. Their collaboration was followed by 'Lustres' (1924). In 1925 'The Perennial Bachelor' was the eighth best-selling book for the entire year according to the New York Times and won the Harper Prize from her publisher. Her 1928 bestseller 'All Kneeling' was made into the 1950 film Born to Be Bad, starring Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan.

Throughout most of her life, Anne Parrish traveled extensively and on a trip to Switzerland, she and her brother purchased Le Paquis, a cottage in a meadow overlooking Lake Geneva not far from Lausanne, between Vevey and Chexbres.

In 1915, she married industrialist Charles Albert Corliss, residing in New York City. Her husband died in 1936. Two years later, she married poet and novelist Josiah Titzell (aka Frederick Lambeck). They made their home in Redding, Connecticut. After he died in 1943, she continued to live there for the rest of her life.