There is Always Love
December 7, 2016
There is Always Love could have been named “There is Always Adventure” or “There is Always Another Choice.” … More There is Always Love
Tag: About Emilie Loring
The Emilie Loring Collection Celebrates Its First Year
November 30, 2016
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
On the Conservation of Mothers, An Excerpt
November 12, 2016
I have been traveling the last week or so and have just returned to my desk, my books, and my notes. My mother is staying with me awhile, so what better time to consider Emilie Loring’s second book, The Mother in the Home? Like her first, For the Comfort of the Family: A Vacation Experiment, … More On the Conservation of Mothers, An Excerpt
Nope, Sorry, That’s Not Romance
November 3, 2016
We need another word. Emilie Loring was called the “Queen of Romance” at a time when romance conjured visions of virtue, ideals, adventure, and honor. “I am looking for the romance of business, of politics, for the dragon-slayers, the imprisoned princesses, the sleeping beauties, the wicked dragons, the fairy-god-mothers of real life, not for romance … More Nope, Sorry, That’s Not Romance
Recipe for Initiative
October 29, 2016
“When your imagination suggests a proposition, consider well if it be worth doing; then, if you decide in the affirmative, bring to its achievement all the conquering energy of your will. Force the project to completion. Even when each individual cog and wheel in the domestic machinery threatens to throw up its job, don’t wobble. … More Recipe for Initiative
Emilie Loring Visits the Nation’s Capital
October 25, 2016
“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
It’s like she was just here yesterday
October 6, 2016
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
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