If you had an afternoon to spend with Emilie Loring, what would you ask her? What’s your favorite song? Do you have a copy of the short story that Victor wrote? What did you keep in the secret drawer behind your bookshelf? How did Victor propose? Today, Emilie answers a question she often received from … More “How to Begin” by Emilie Loring
Kismet Takes a Hand It Always Does Where There’s a Man and a Woman With the sleeves of her blue linen smock rolled above her elbows, Patricia Langdon was intent on soldering a silver box cover. Slender, youthful, she stood with her foot on a treadle and by pressure increased or diminished the heat from … More “Kismet Takes a Hand,” A Short Story by Emilie Loring
I recently recorded an episode for the entertaining podcast “Lost Ladies of Lit” with Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. You can listen to the episode here. It was great to give Emilie Loring some time in the spotlight, and I hope you will give it a listen. It still seems odd to think of Emilie … More Smart Romances for Smart Women
My grandpa’s fourth grade reader changed my notions of what children read at the turn of the last century. I don’t know of any fourth grade, mine included, that assigns Daniel Defoe to nine and ten year olds. Emilie Loring and my grandfather, although a generation apart, both studied the classics as a matter of … More What the Children Read
“The Best is Yet to Be,” came at a turning point in Emilie Loring’s writing career. Josephine Story retired, and Emilie Loring took over. … More Behind the Scenes of “The Best is Yet to Be”
As I re-stained my wooden deck yesterday, I listened to podcasts about book publishing. A perennial trend is “chick lit”–the print counterpart to “chick flicks.” My first thought was that Emilie Loring’s newly re-issued novels could benefit. My second thought was that I have never in my life considered Emilie Loring’s novels as “chick lit.” … More Chick Lit? Romantic Comedy? Literature?
The Emilie Loring Collection 