Oh, the many things that happen in a year! One year ago, I started this website and blog with two goals: (1) find Emilie Loring’s readers (2) let them know that her biography is on its way. This was my first website, my first blog, but with a large dose of Emilie Loring optimism, I began. … More The Emilie Loring Collection Celebrates Its First Year
Since my last post, I’ve received requests for more excerpts from The Mother in the Home. Very well, we can do that! Emilie did a good job with her title, “A Rush Order for Fancy Dress,” as it was the most requested. You can actually read this short story in its original context, the September, … More Stop Wishing and Organize for Pleasure
“The first week in December… It was also the week in which she had returned to the United States after eight years in Europe… What lay ahead? Whatever it was she could take it, she was tingling to meet it.” Across the Years The inspiration for Emilie Loring’s Across the Years was a … More Emilie Loring Visits the Nation’s Capital
Were he alive today, Emilie Loring’s father, George Melville Baker, would be on all of the entertainment and talk shows. Funny and eloquent, George could sing, act, and keep an audience in stitches with one-liners and jokes. He was a Boston insider, connected with the movers and shakers of his day: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, theater players, … More Baseball’s Original Cast: Tallymen, Base Tenders, and Strikers
I went to Cape Cod a few weeks ago to see how much remained of the Barnstable that Emilie Loring knew when she lived there. Of course, that was 1889-91, and she was Emilie Baker then. Her father and brother were ill, so the Bakers closed up their Boston house and rented a home in the … More It’s like she was just here yesterday
We first met Heide in When the Best Stories are Both New and Old. I’m so happy she agreed to write us a full post. Enjoy! The first Emilie Loring book I read was Bright Skies. I don’t really remember why I picked up that book in the little school library [My cousin and I were helping my aunt … More Guest Post: A Cheerful Print Frock and Emilie Loring
Thursdays at four o’clock, Emilie Loring was “at home” to receive guests for afternoon tea. If you’ve read any of her thirty novels, you know how much she loved giving teas. “If this house were to float down river in a flood your mother would manage a tea party on the roof.” As Long As I Live A tea … More Find Your Fortune in a Pleasant Cup of Tea
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