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
Highlights for Children Highlights magazine was the magazine for children in the 1960s. Billed as “wholesome fun,” regular features emphasized reading, manners & conduct, health & safety, moral values, music and the arts, nature and science, our country and other lands and peoples, thinking and reasoning, and creativity. I read Highlights in the doctor’s or … More Emilie Loring and the Legacy of Children’s Magazines
“We haven’t any money to spend, but we have love and time and an opulent imagination…” … More “Her Christmas Ships” by Emilie Loring
The year was 1915. Emilie Loring and her husband, Victor, had taken an apartment at the Riverbank Court Hotel overlooking the Charles River in Boston. Their sons were at school, and Emilie had time to write without distraction or interruption. Under her pseudonym, Josephine Story, she had already written articles on homemaking and motherhood. Now, … More “Dress and the Girl,” an Emilie Loring Short Story
The first intimation Gay Latimer had of danger was Eric Crane’s quick shake of the stick and seizure of the controls… … More An Emilie Loring Short Story: A Girl with Two Minds
Last week, Dr. Peter Gerard overheard Jean Maxwell’s declaration, “I will never marry a physician!” Let’s see what happens next… … More Part II: Emilie Loring’s “Why?”
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