Homestead On The Hillside And Other Tales By Mrs Mary J Holmes

Author : Mary Jane Holmes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530883028
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Homestead on the Hillside written by Mary Jane Holmes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homestead on the Hillside is a book written by Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 - October 6, 1907) who was a bestselling and prolific American author who published 39 popular novels, as well as short stories. Her first novel sold 250,000 copies; and she had total sales of 2 million books in her lifetime, second only to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Portraying domestic life in small-town and rural settings, she examined gender relationships, as well as those of class and race. She also dealt with slavery and the American Civil War with a strong sense of moral justice. Since the late 20th century she has received fresh recognition and reappraisal, although her popular work was excluded from most 19th-century literary histories. Homestead on the Hillside: in 1852 the Holmes family returned to New York and settled in Brockport, a short distance west of Rochester, where Daniel read law and was ultimately admitted to the bar. He went into practice and also served in local politics. They had no children. Holmes' supportive marriage was one she used as a model for several portrayed in her novels. Holmes used her experiences in Kentucky for the material of several novels. In 1854 at the age of 29, she published her first novel, Tempest and Sunshine. Its central girl characters, Julia and Fanny, were reportedly modeled on the local family of John Singleton and his daughters Bettie and Susan. The portrayal of girls with contrasting characters was resolved with a sense of moral justice, as they both traveled personal journeys of growth. While sales of the novel were slow at first, they steadily continued, and ultimately totaled about 250,000 copies. Reprinted in 1886, this novel was her most popular. She was first published by Appleton, and later for 20 years by G.W. Carleton, which was succeeded by G.W. Dillingham, all of New York City. As The Nation noted in its obituary at her death: Homestead on the Hillside is an eternal paradox of our world of letters that the books which enjoy the largest sale are barely recognized as existing by the guardians of literary tradition. Homestead on the Hillside: Mrs. Mary Jane Holmes, who died Sunday at Brockport, N.Y., wrote thirty-nine novels with aggregate sales, it is said, of more than two million copies, and yet she had not even a paragraph devoted to her life and works in the histories of American Literature. ("The Week"). Homestead on the Hillside written by the author Mary Jane Holmes is a great book highly recommended to read .