The Beloved Woman - Thompson Norris, Kathleen

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Résumé :
A poignant, quietly radical portrait of ordinary lives and unspoken hopes. The Beloved Woman speaks in a clear, intimate voice that lingers long after the last page. This is more than a story about a small town...

Biographie:
Kathleen Thompson Norris was an American author and newspaper writer who was born July 16, 1880, and died January 18, 1966. She was one of the best-known and highest-paid women writers in the US for almost fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Norris wrote a lot. He finished 93 books, and many of them were big hits. A lot of famous magazines of the time ran her stories, such as The Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal, and Woman's Home Companion. Norris used her stories to promote family and moral ideals, like how important it is to serve others, be a good mother, and keep your marriage holy. Jane Thompson Norris was born on July 16, 1880, in San Francisco, California. It was Josephine (n?e Moroney) and James Alden Thompson who raised her. They both died when she was 19. Since she was the oldest, she was in charge of the whole family and had to work. She first got a job in a department store, then quickly moved on to an accounting office, and finally ended up at the Mechanic's Institute Library. She started writing short stories when she went to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1905 to take a creative writing class....

Sommaire:
it is a careful study of domestic life, marriage expectations, and women's roles in the early twentieth century. Kathleen Thompson Norris crafts a humane and observing narrative that feels both intimate and expansive, offering a lens on pressing social currents through relatable, lived experiences. For readers who savour the quiet rigor of classic american novel writing, the book rewards repeated reading as a window into a culture, its constraints, and its quiet rebellions. It sits comfortably alongside the great American social novels that peers like Edith Wharton and William Dean Howells illuminate, yet maintains a singular, generous warmth. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, The Beloved Woman is restored for today's and future generations. It is not simply a reprint but a collector's item and a cultural treasure, ideal for book clubs, literary study guides, and college literature reading. Whether you are a casual reader or a classic-literature collector, this volume offers a richly rendered portrait of an american small town, its people, and the enduring questions about love, duty, and choice. A true gathering of voices from a pivotal era....