Norris Kathleen Thompson
Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880, San Francisco, California – January 18, 1966, Palo Alto, California) was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909. She was educated in a special course at the University of California and wrote many popular romance novels that some considered sentimental and honest in their prose. Norris was the highest-paid female writer of her time, and many of her novels are held in high regard today. Many of her novels were set in California, particularly the San Francisco area. They feature detailed descriptions of the upper-class lifestyle. After 1910 she contributed to Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion.
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1922. Kathleen Norris was a writer of romantic novels and short stories that had enormous appeal, particularly to women. One of her favorite themes involved virtuous women grappling with moral issues, for instance, affairs with married men. Her writings were labeled as sentimental and honest. Lucretia Lombard begins: In the long drawing-room of the stately home of Judge Samuel Curran and Bessy Emerson Curran, his wife, there reigned an utter, almost an uncanny silence. Yet there were six persons seated there, any one of whom, under ordinary circumstances, might have been considered equal to the demands of a more or less brilliant conversation. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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josselyns wife
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The morning came with glorious winter sunlight, and Ellen Latimer, turning luxuriously under her warm soft blankets, stared blankly at a clock that was rapidly moving toward nine o'clock. They must all have had breakfast by this timeevidently nobody cared whether she was alive or dead. But the situation seemed rather interesting than tragic this morning. She got up, enjoying the unexpected warmth of the room, and went yawning into the bathroom, and turned on both faucets for a bath. Not that Ellen took a bath every morning, there was no bathroom in the old Latimer house, but she was as adaptable as most girls of her age. While the bath was running, she peeped timidly into Mrs. Rose's room, and was pleasantly surprised to see that lady's large form, heaving in deep slumber, upon the bed. One person would be later than Ellen, at all events! Ellen had had a white night, one of the few in her experience. For long hours she had lain awake, thinking soberly about the events of the past two days, and, quite unconsciously, assimilating their bitter lesson. These girls were not better than she, not wiser, not really happier. But their circumstances were utterly different, and it was Ellen who was to blame, not they, for trying to bridge the gulf between their lives. She still had her good home, her own admiring and affectionate group, her books to read by the fire, her garden to dream over in the spring, and the swimming and boating and tennis that absorbed all youthful Port Washington from June to October. She had Willa and Olive and the Henshaw boys and Bobby Carnival to take Sunday walks with, and, above all, she had her work at the Leagueand she was going to work in deadly earnest now. Lucia and Doris were not real, and Ellen's life dealt only with what was...
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lucretia lombard
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1922. Kathleen Norris was a writer of romantic novels and short stories that had enormous appeal, particularly to women. One of her favorite themes involved virtuous women grappling with moral issues, for instance, affairs with married men. Her writings were labeled as sentimental and honest. Lucretia Lombard begins: In the long drawing-room of the stately home of Judge Samuel Curran and Bessy Emerson Curran, his wife, there reigned an utter, almost an uncanny silence. Yet there were six persons seated there, any one of whom, under ordinary circumstances, might have been considered equal to the demands of a more or less brilliant conversation. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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josselyns wife
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The morning came with glorious winter sunlight, and Ellen Latimer, turning luxuriously under her warm soft blankets, stared blankly at a clock that was rapidly moving toward nine o'clock. They must all have had breakfast by this timeevidently nobody cared whether she was alive or dead. But the situation seemed rather interesting than tragic this morning. She got up, enjoying the unexpected warmth of the room, and went yawning into the bathroom, and turned on both faucets for a bath. Not that Ellen took a bath every morning, there was no bathroom in the old Latimer house, but she was as adaptable as most girls of her age. While the bath was running, she peeped timidly into Mrs. Rose's room, and was pleasantly surprised to see that lady's large form, heaving in deep slumber, upon the bed. One person would be later than Ellen, at all events! Ellen had had a white night, one of the few in her experience. For long hours she had lain awake, thinking soberly about the events of the past two days, and, quite unconsciously, assimilating their bitter lesson. These girls were not better than she, not wiser, not really happier. But their circumstances were utterly different, and it was Ellen who was to blame, not they, for trying to bridge the gulf between their lives. She still had her good home, her own admiring and affectionate group, her books to read by the fire, her garden to dream over in the spring, and the swimming and boating and tennis that absorbed all youthful Port Washington from June to October. She had Willa and Olive and the Henshaw boys and Bobby Carnival to take Sunday walks with, and, above all, she had her work at the Leagueand she was going to work in deadly earnest now. Lucia and Doris were not real, and Ellen's life dealt only with what was...
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certain people of importance
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Undertow
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A very touching and romantic novel where readers will dive into the world of love, passion and betray. Although the book is not very long, it will definitely bring you wonderful impressions and introduce you to the wonderful spirit of the beginning of the twentieth century.
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The Treasure
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Lizzie, who happened to be the Salisbury's one servant at the time, was wasteful. It was almost her only fault, in Mrs. Salisbury's eyes, for such trifles as her habit of becoming excited and "saucy," in moments of domestic stress, or to ask boldly for other holidays than her alternate Sunday and Thursday afternoons, or to resent at all times the intrusion of any person, even her mistress, into her immaculate kitchen, might have been overlooked.
The 1914 work by an American twentieth century novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris.
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The 1914 work by an American twentieth century novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris.
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Sisters
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Cherry Strickland came in the door of the Strickland house and shut it behind her and stood so with her hands behind her on the knob and her slender body leaning forward and her breath rising and falling on deep ecstatic breaths
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Saturday's Child
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and pinched-looking, eager, silent, and hard-working. Miss Sherman gave the impressionor would have given it to anyone who cared to study herof having been intimidated and underfed from birth. She had a keen sense of humor, and, when Susan Brown "got started," as Susan Brown occasionally did, Miss Sherman would laugh so violently, and with such agonized attempts at suppression, that she would almost strangle herself. Nobody guessed that she adored the brilliant Susan, unless Miss Brown herself guessed it. The girls only knew of Miss Sherman that she was the oldest of eight brothers and sisters, and that she gave her mother all her money every Saturday night. Miss Elsie Kirk came next, in the line of girls that faced the room, and Miss Violet Kirk was next to her" sister. The Kirks were pretty, light-headed girls, frivolous, common and noisy. They had a comfortable home, and worked only because they rather liked the excitement of the office, and liked an excuse to come downtown every day. Elsie, the prettier and younger, was often "mean" to her sister, but Violet was always good-natured, and used to smile as she told the girls how Elsie captured herViolet'sadmirers. The Kirks' conversation was all of "cases," "the crowd," "the times of their lives," and "new crushes"; they never pinned on their audacious hats to go home at night without speculating as to possible romantic adventures on the car, on the street, everywhere. They were not quite approved by the rest of the Front Office staff; their color was not all natural, their clothes were "fussy." Both wore enormous dry "rats," that showed through the thin covering of outer hair, their stockings were quite transparent, and bows of pink and lavender ribbon were visible under their thin shirt-waists. It was known that Elsie ha...
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The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
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But the hour was darker and colder for Alanna. She searched and she hoped and she prayed in vain. She stood up, after a long hands-and- knees expedition under the tables where she had been earlier, and pressed her right hand over her eyes, and said aloud in her misery, "Oh, I CAN'T have lost it! I CAN'T have. Oh, don't let me have lost it!" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Mother
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The first published book of an American novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris, the author of many popular romance novels that some considered sentimental and honest in their prose. “Mother” appeared in 1911 and became an ultimately influential and acclaimed work, originally a short story submitted to a magazine contest. The story, celebrating a sacrifice to motherhood, revolves around a young heroine, who leaves home to find herself and her place in life.
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Martie, the Unconquered
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The Heart of Rachael
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A novel by Kathleen Thompson Norris, an American author of the twentieth century. One of the most famous writers of her time, she touches upon the questions of love, feminism, struggle and poverty in her sentimental and honest works.
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Harriet and the Piper
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Published for the first time on 1920, the story focuses on the life of Harriet and various situations and problems which appear on her way. Harriet thoroughly analyzes each situation to take to right decision and develop her personality and moral traits as well as her material welfare. The story is full with a number of interesting and amusing characters who play their own role in the life of Harriet. This girl gives a very good example for those who were born in an ordinary and poor family and who want to see the other side of life, experience love and accumulate a fortune.
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The Beloved Woman
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III At Almost this same moment Norma's self was the subject of a rather unusual talk between Christopher Liggett and his wife. Christopher had come softly into his house, at about half-past ten, to find Alice awake, still on the big couch before her fire. Her little bedroom beyond was softly lighted, the white bed turned down, and the religious books she always read before going to sleep laid in place by Miss Slater. But Alice had no light except her fire and two or three candles in old sconces. She welcomed Christopher with a smile, and he sat down, in his somewhat rumpled evening dress, and smiled back at her in a rather weary fashion. He often told her that these rooms of hers were a sanctuary, that he tested the men and women he met daily in the world by her fine and lofty standard. It was part of his utter generosity to her that he talked to her as frankly as if he thought aloud, and it was Alice's pride and joy to know that this marriage of theirs, which had so sadly and suddenly become no marriage at all, was not as one-sided as the world might have suspected. Her clear, dispassionate viewpoint and her dignified companionship were not wifehood, but they were dear and valuable to him none the less, a part of his life that he would not have spared. And he could still admire her, too, not only for the exquisite clearness of her intellect, her French and Italian, her knowledge of countries and affairs, but physically the clear, childish forehead that was as unwrinkled as Leslie's, the fair, beautifully brushed hair, the mouth with its chiselling of wisdom and of pain, and the transparent hand from which she shook back transparent laces. She was always proud, always fresh and fragrant, always free for him and for his problems, and it was proverbial in the ci...
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