Skip to content

The Emilie Loring Collection

by Patti Bender

  • Emilie Loring
  • Blog
  • Bookshelf
  • Patti Bender

Tag: books

With Compliments: First Books and Their Inscriptions

December 27, 2021

There’s something about the first of anything–a sense of witnessing, a curious feeling of participation, even if the “first” was created before we were born. … More With Compliments: First Books and Their Inscriptions

16 Comments With Compliments: First Books and Their Inscriptions

Welcome to our 2021 Emilie Loring Tea

June 26, 2021

Our 2021 Emilie Loring Tea comes to a close, but don’t let that stop you! Every day is an opportunity to enjoy a cup and another Emilie Loring. … More Welcome to our 2021 Emilie Loring Tea

4 Comments Welcome to our 2021 Emilie Loring Tea

Summer Reading and An Invitation to Tea

June 18, 2021

You are cordially invited to enjoy an Emilie Loring inspired tea on Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 4:00 p.m., at your location, your local time. … More Summer Reading and An Invitation to Tea

6 Comments Summer Reading and An Invitation to Tea

When Books are People and an Invitation to Tea

July 20, 2020

Once again, I have been traveling. It wasn’t the adventurous kind of traveling that I sometimes do, jetting off to a new town, a new cottage, a new seashore, but I traveled 1,834 miles by car, nevertheless, and there’s plenty to see and to think about on a drive like that. As the miles melted … More When Books are People and an Invitation to Tea

9 Comments When Books are People and an Invitation to Tea

Summer Days and a Summer Story for You

July 4, 2019

I’m up at the lake, barefoot most of the day, ready to wade or hop into a kayak at a moment’s notice. At night, I curl up atop a homemade quilt and read to the sound of lapping water. Emilie Loring read all summer, too. Her shelves were stocked with aspirational reading, and she signed … More Summer Days and a Summer Story for You

2 Comments Summer Days and a Summer Story for You

The Roving Spotlight of Literary Taste

April 8, 2019

Last night, I was reading Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, and I had to stop. I’ve read the reviews, and I expect lifting spirits later in the story, but not yet. Eleanor’s loneliness, the cruelty of her past, and her confusion in the present could not take me to the sweet land of … More The Roving Spotlight of Literary Taste

1 Comment The Roving Spotlight of Literary Taste

The Personal Patina of Book Collections

October 17, 2018

For people who know the story, a person’s collection expresses a part of their personality long after they are gone. … More The Personal Patina of Book Collections

13 Comments The Personal Patina of Book Collections

Posts navigation

Older posts

Community

  • 128,769 views

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

Search

from Valentine Loring Titus, Emilie Loring’s granddaughter:

“I am personally grateful to Patti for filling out a dim, long-ago picture of my grandmother. Her skillful, sensitive portrait brings Emilie alive for me and adds many new dimensions–hard working, organized, feminist–with an extraordinary sense of optimism, and faith that things would turn out all right.”

Join us on Facebook

Join us on Facebook

Finder

  • About Emilie Loring (270)
    • Baker and Loring families (48)
    • Friends and authors (29)
    • Her writing process (51)
    • Nostalgia and history (107)
      • Silver Screen (1)
      • World War I (2)
      • World War II (9)
  • Biography (83)
    • Discovering Emilie's story (47)
    • Publication (3)
    • Storytelling (13)
  • Emilie Loring's books (122)
    • Book excerpts (15)
    • Ghostwritten books (12)
    • Kindle books (4)
    • Reading Emilie Loring (34)
  • Emilie Loring's early writing (13)
  • Emilie Loring's short stories (12)
  • Enthusiasms (49)
    • Family history – genealogy (8)
    • Gardens (12)
    • Recipes (15)
    • Tea (19)
  • Fan Events (14)
  • Grace notes (37)
  • Guest posts (18)
  • Traveling New England (80)
    • Blue Hill, Maine (45)
    • Boston (27)
    • Cape Cod (5)
    • Greater Maine (13)
    • Wellesley Hills (1)
  • Uncategorized (1)
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • The Emilie Loring Collection
    • Join 575 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Emilie Loring Collection
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...