Welcome to our annual Emilie Loring Tea! I look forward to this day each year, partly to see everyone’s ideas and partly to remind myself to take a little time for myself–for tea, for “fika,” for relaxation and beauty. If you’re new to our tea, enjoy this visual treat and the ideas that follow. If … More Come in! Welcome to the Emilie Loring Tea!
In the search for renewed vitality, a feeling of refreshment, Emilie Loring’s novels light the way. “If, when they reach ‘the end’ they forget to go back for their problems and march blithely toward the day’s work pepped up and refreshed, refreshed—it’s a great word, isn’t it—I shall feel that I have achieved something.” Give … More Emilie Loring’s Novels: Where Adventure Meets Refreshment
“Refreshed, it’s a great word, isn’t it?” (Give Me One Summer) Hello again, everyone. I have returned from three weeks in Sweden with my resilience refilled, my optimism boosted. A day in Sweden doesn’t get too far along before someone suggests, “Shall we take a little fika?” Fika can be as small as a demitasse … More Refreshed and Rested, Ready for Tea–or Fika!
I wondered if Emilie Baker Loring’s second novel would have as many literary and cultural references as her first. Ha! Of course it did! The opening pages averaged two per page, and my paperback copy has 167 pages. Better make a full pot of tea for this one! Here Comes the Sun! begins with two … More Literary and Cultural References in “Here Comes the Sun!”
Greetings after a short trip to Boston and the Cape (yay!) and some weeks afterwards to manage my mom’s hospitalization and recovery. I expect this pattern to continue, so I will write as I am able and invite any of you to submit guest posts for us to read in between times. Let me know … More Remembering Our Revolutionary Heroes: Ancestral Stories for July 4th
I often look up the quotations in Emilie Loring’s books as clues to what she read. Alexandra caught a quotation in High of Heart that I hadn’t yet researched, and I scurried down a rabbit hole trying to find both its origin and the copy most likely to have caught Emilie’s eye. Where did it come from? … More Uncovering Emilie Loring’s Literary Influences
I had absolutely no idea what marrons were when I first read this line. And for someone who generally looks up words she doesn’t know, I waited an extraordinarily long time to investigate this one. Marrons are sweet chestnuts, Castanea sativa. They can be roasted, or they can be soaked in sugar syrup and vanilla … More Marrons at Last! A Sweet Chestnut Discovery
The Emilie Loring Collection 