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Pat Marlowe #3
First Love Farewell
Emery's third Pat Marlowe novel finds Pat in her first year at Northwestern University studying speech, planning to be an actress, and wanting to marry her high school fiance. But the university broadens Pat's horizons and changes her plans, particularly those concerning Tim.
- GenresYoung AdultRomance
171 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1958
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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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November 19, 2016
Re-read October 2001.
Re-read April 2011.
Enjoyed this one more this time around. Who can't empathize with Pat and her clinging to Tim even as she knows the relationship is doomed?
Re-read November 2016.
Re-read April 2011.
Enjoyed this one more this time around. Who can't empathize with Pat and her clinging to Tim even as she knows the relationship is doomed?
Re-read November 2016.
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