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Ester Ried #6
Ester Ried's Namesake
Ester Ried tries to be good to everyone most especially to her parents, yet she is having a hard time establishing a close relationship with God. Another dilemma she faces is her own name that she would always complains of. Will she be able to renew herself with having more faith in God? These and all about Ester’s dramatic life are worth reading, intended for those who have weak devotion to God, to strengthen their faith more and more each day.
Isabella Macdonald Alden was an American author who wrote under her pen name, Pansy, as her father would call her. She was the daughter of her intellectual parents Isaac Alden and Myra Spafford Macdonald. At an early age, she developed a skill in writing a daily journal. When she was ten years old, she wrote her first book “Our Old Clock” and was published. She was married to Reverend Gustavus Rossenberg Alden and had a son named Raymond. She pursued in writing, attending to church activities, and teaching at Oneida Seminary in New York.
Alden wrote around 100 books, which are mostly influenced by religious values. Her works are mostly inspired by Biblical passages and translated it into what a good Christian should be. Her books were also based on life experiences, some others by her interest in the Chautauqua movement.
Alden was very close to her sister Marcia, who married the Reverend Charles Livingston, they lived under one house for several years. When Alden’s husband and son died, she lived with her daughter-in-law. Her unfinished autobiography, Memories of Yesterday, was completed by her niece, Grace Livingston Hill.
One of her words of wisdom is “Never be discouraged because the good things go on slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.”
Isabella Macdonald Alden was an American author who wrote under her pen name, Pansy, as her father would call her. She was the daughter of her intellectual parents Isaac Alden and Myra Spafford Macdonald. At an early age, she developed a skill in writing a daily journal. When she was ten years old, she wrote her first book “Our Old Clock” and was published. She was married to Reverend Gustavus Rossenberg Alden and had a son named Raymond. She pursued in writing, attending to church activities, and teaching at Oneida Seminary in New York.
Alden wrote around 100 books, which are mostly influenced by religious values. Her works are mostly inspired by Biblical passages and translated it into what a good Christian should be. Her books were also based on life experiences, some others by her interest in the Chautauqua movement.
Alden was very close to her sister Marcia, who married the Reverend Charles Livingston, they lived under one house for several years. When Alden’s husband and son died, she lived with her daughter-in-law. Her unfinished autobiography, Memories of Yesterday, was completed by her niece, Grace Livingston Hill.
One of her words of wisdom is “Never be discouraged because the good things go on slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.”
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429 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1906
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Pansy
338 books31 followersNote: In her lifetime, Isabella Macdonald Alden was usually published under the pseudonym Pansy, and occasionally under the name Mrs. G.R. Alden.
Aunt to Grace Livingston Hill
The sixth of seven children born to Isaac and Myra Spafford Macdonald, of Rochester, New York, Isabella Macdonald received her early education from her father, who home-schooled her, and gave her a nickname - "Pansy" - that she would use for many of her publications. As a girl, she kept a daily journal, critiqued by her father, and she published her first story - The Old Clock - in a village paper when she was ten years old.
Macdonald's education continued at the Oneida Seminary, the Seneca Collegiate Institute, and the Young Ladies Institute, all in New York. It was at the Oneida Seminary that she met her long-time friend (and eventual co-author), Theodosia Toll, who secretly submitted one of Macdonald's manuscripts in a competition, setting in motion a chain of events that would lead to the publication of her first book, Helen Lester, in 1865.
Macdonald also met her future husband, the Rev. Gustavus Rossenberg Alden, at the Oneida Seminary, and the two were married in 1866. Now Isabella Macdonald Alden, the newly-married minister's wife followed her husband as his postings took them around the country, dividing her time between writing, church duties, and raising her son Raymond (born 1873).
A prolific author, who wrote approximately one hundred novels from 1865 to 1929, and co-authored ten more, Alden was also actively involved in the world of children's and religious periodicals, publishing numerous short stories, editing the Sunday Juvenile Pansy from 1874-1894, producing Sunday School lessons for The Westminster Teacher for twenty years, and working on the editorial staff of various other magazines (Trained Motherhood, The Christian Endeavor).
Highly influenced by her Christian beliefs, much of Alden's work was explicitly moral and didactic, and often found its way into Sunday School libraries. It was also immensely popular, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with an estimated 100,000 copies of Alden's books sold, in 1900.
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Aunt to Grace Livingston Hill
The sixth of seven children born to Isaac and Myra Spafford Macdonald, of Rochester, New York, Isabella Macdonald received her early education from her father, who home-schooled her, and gave her a nickname - "Pansy" - that she would use for many of her publications. As a girl, she kept a daily journal, critiqued by her father, and she published her first story - The Old Clock - in a village paper when she was ten years old.
Macdonald's education continued at the Oneida Seminary, the Seneca Collegiate Institute, and the Young Ladies Institute, all in New York. It was at the Oneida Seminary that she met her long-time friend (and eventual co-author), Theodosia Toll, who secretly submitted one of Macdonald's manuscripts in a competition, setting in motion a chain of events that would lead to the publication of her first book, Helen Lester, in 1865.
Macdonald also met her future husband, the Rev. Gustavus Rossenberg Alden, at the Oneida Seminary, and the two were married in 1866. Now Isabella Macdonald Alden, the newly-married minister's wife followed her husband as his postings took them around the country, dividing her time between writing, church duties, and raising her son Raymond (born 1873).
A prolific author, who wrote approximately one hundred novels from 1865 to 1929, and co-authored ten more, Alden was also actively involved in the world of children's and religious periodicals, publishing numerous short stories, editing the Sunday Juvenile Pansy from 1874-1894, producing Sunday School lessons for The Westminster Teacher for twenty years, and working on the editorial staff of various other magazines (Trained Motherhood, The Christian Endeavor).
Highly influenced by her Christian beliefs, much of Alden's work was explicitly moral and didactic, and often found its way into Sunday School libraries. It was also immensely popular, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with an estimated 100,000 copies of Alden's books sold, in 1900.
Information taken from:
readseries.com
isabellamacdonaldalden.com
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July 19, 2024
First half of the book reminded me of "Christianity and liberalism" by Gresham Machen (written less than two decades after this fiction book). Focuses on "home missionary" profession - not serving abroad, but in their own country, only in some less reached, poorer place. Young adult fiction with biblical character values.
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