Books with author Elia W. Peattie

This children's book was published in 1912 with illustrations by Hazel Roberts. It the first of three "Azalea" books by Elia Peattie. Be sure to look for the others: - Annie Laurie and Azalea - Azalea's Silver Web ............................................................................... Book Excerpt: The McBirneys The guinea hens wanted everybody to get up. They said so right under the bedroom window; and the turkey gobbler had the same wish and made it known in his most important manner. Hours before, Mr. Rhode Island Red, the rooster, had expressed his opinion on the subject, and from the first pale hint of dawn till the sun swung up in the clear May sky, a great company of tanagers, robins, martins, meadow larks and their friends had suggested, each in his own way, that it was time to be awake. But really, it didn't need all of this clamor to get the McBirneys out of bed. Since sunup, Thomas McBirney had been planting cotton on the red clay terraces of his mountain farm; and Mary McBirney, his wife, had been busied lay- ing her hearth-fire, getting the breakfast and feeding the crowing, cackling, gobbling crea- tures in the yard. And three times she had thrust her head in at the door of the lean-to to say that if she were a boy she'd get up and see what a pretty day it was. James Stuart McBirney, otherwise Jim, thought his mother was right about almost every- thing, but he did differ with her about getting up when a fellow felt like a log and his eyes were as tight as ticks. He had heard her say there was a time for everything, and it seemed to him that the time to sleep was when a fellow was sleepy. Why should sensible people send him to bed when he wasn't sleepy and make him get up when he was? Contents: I. The McBirneys II. New Friends III. In Hiding IV. New Clothes V. The Shoals VI. Growing Pains VII. The Singing VIII. The Kidnapping IX. Haystack Thompson X. The Escape XI. The Summers Family XII. Ma Says No XIII. At Home Again XIV. The Sacrifice XV. Azalea Chooses .............................................................................. About the Author: Born in the Gilded Age, Elia W. Peattie stood at the door of the Progressive Era and held it open for a new generation of women who would continue to seek careers, gain universal suffrage for women, promote birth control, and fight vice, filth, corruption, ugliness, ignorance, and exploitation. Her intellectual background, her use of irony and humor, her ability to employ various genres and literary approaches, and her undaunted "impertinence" produced a strong voice on the Great Plains. As a result, she became a vital catalyst for social change and a successful role model for promoting personal and professional independence for women. A loving and beloved mother and wife and a successful journalist, Peattie proved that a woman, if she wanted it, could have it all.** **...summary from plainshumanities.unl.edu

This children's book is from 1913. If you choose to read the books in order, look for: - Azalea, the Story of a Girl in the Blue Ridge Mountains (1912) - Azalea's Silver Web (1915) ............................................................................... Excerpt: Chapter I: Two and One Make -- How Many? The long red clay road, winding down from the cabin where the McBirneys lived on their high shelf of Tennyson mountain, was frosted delicately with white, and by the roadside the curious frost flowers lifted their heads, as airy- fine as fern. From the half-hidden cabins all around the semicircle of mountains that skirted the valley of Lee, shafts of smoke arose, showing that the people were about the business of the day. Straight, gray and shadowy these smoke- shafts lifted through the lilac-tinted air; and below in the little town, other shafts of smoke ascended as if in friendly answer. Azalea McBirney, in her dark riding skirt and bright knitted cap and reefer, came running from the cabin with the manner of a girl very much behindhand. "Ain't he there yet, Zalie?" a voice called from the cabin. "Ain't Jim brought them ponies around yet?" "No, mother," Azalea answered over her shoulder, starting toward the stable. "Maybe the ponies have been naughty again. I'll go see." "You just stay where you be," commanded James Stuart McBirney from the stable. "You've got all your work done, ben't you? Well, that's all you have to think about. This here is my job and I mean to do it whatever comes, though these here ponies certainly do act up on a morning like this. "Well, I would just as soon get my breath for a moment," Azalea remarked to nobody in particular, seating herself on the bench by the side of the door." As Hi Kitchell's mother says, *I bin goin' like a streak o' lightnin' since sun-up.' " Her cheeks were, indeed, a trifle over-flushed, and forgetting for a moment how time was has- tening along, and that she and Jim ought already to be on the road to school, she leaned her head against the side of the cabin and looked about her contentedly. She loved the scene before her; loved the pines with their light coating of hoar- frost; loved the waterfall with its gleaming ici- cles; loved the scent of the wood-smoke and the sight of "Molly Cottontail" scampering through the bushes. Chapters: I. Two and One Make — How Many? II. Annie Laurie Pace III. Trial Without Jury IV. A Rainy Night V. The Summers VI. Sunday VII. The Signal VIII. The Mystery IX. The Disbrows X. Sam XI. Marching Orders XII. "The Doll Lady" XIII. The Long Red Road XIV. Hi's Houn' Dog XV. The Voice in the Mist XVI. Good for Evil XVII. Azalea's Party .............................................................................. About the Author: Born in the Gilded Age, Elia W. Peattie stood at the door of the Progressive Era and held it open for a new generation of women who would continue to seek careers, gain universal suffrage for women, promote birth control, and fight vice, filth, corruption, ugliness, ignorance, and exploitation. Her intellectual background, her use of irony and humor, her ability to employ various genres and literary approaches, and her undaunted "impertinence" produced a strong voice on the Great Plains. As a result, she became a vital catalyst for social change and a successful role model for promoting personal and professional independence for women. A loving and beloved mother and wife and a successful journalist, Peattie proved that a woman, if she wanted it, could have it all.** **...summary from plainshumanities.unl.edu

This children's book is from 1915. There are two earlier books if you choose to read them in order: - Azalea, the Story of a Girl in the Blue Ridge Mountains (1912) - Annie Laurie and Azalea (1913) ............................................................................... Excerpt - Chapter I: Grown Girls Tennyson Mountain, N. C, October 6. Carin, dear and far: So you are back at your beloved Vassar! Does it seem as wonderful as it did last year? Or more so? More so, I expect. You were a little lonely and strange last year, you know. But now it will be different. The girls will seem like old friends to you now that you are coming back to them. But, Carin, girl, they cannot possibly be such old friends as I am, or as Annie Laurie is. Don't dare to like one of them better than you like us. I can imagine, and really spend too much time imagining, just how lovely and cultivated and surprising some of them are. But, please, aren't some of them quite stupid, too? I hope so. Annie Laurie hopes so. We want still to be the brightest stars in your sky. Lest you should think we are not, we keep polishing ourselves. Annie Laurie, when she is not attending to her dairy, will take university extension work. And I, your own ever adoring, ever grateful Azalea, will keep hammering away at the books that dear Barbara Summers lends, and Keefe O'Connor sends down from New York, and those that your own library at the Shoals furnishes. I have the heart to read, Carin, but not the time. That's the truth. Or, come to think of it, perhaps it is a matter of eyelids. I have a queer, self-closing pair. If they would stay up after nine o'clock at night I could learn some- thing. But, no, they appear to be attached to a wheel or a ratchet in the clock, and when nine strikes, down they go and down they stay. What can I do? Nothing, except kiss dearest Mother McBirney good night, trying not to yawn in her face as I do it, and after paying my respects to Father McBirney and " brother " Jim, slip away up to my darling loft. Now, there, Carin! You see I'm nicer than your other friends, more unusual and surpris- ing. (You told me the last time I saw you that you liked your friends to be unusual and sur- prising.) Well, have you any other friend who goes up to her bedroom by means of an outside pair of stairs and who sleeps in a loft, with a tame bat for company? You have not, Carin Carson, and you know it. And, Oh, how I love it! Shall I ever have another room I love so well? The soft noises of the night come purling down into it like a stream. The stars of the northern sky shine into it. The mountain-side is like a green curtain hanging before it. When I get up in that little room, my doors and win- dows wide to old Mount Tennyson's whispering side, I seem to find my real self. Everything slips away from me except the night and myself and — and God. Chapters: I. Grown Girls II. New Relations III. Own Folk IV. Madam Grandmother V. Mallowbanks VI. My Ball VII. Getting Settled VIII. The Portrait IX. Grandmother's Story X. " The Waters of Quiet " XI. A Friend XII. A Travel Log XIII. Crossroads XIV. " Where There Is a Will " XV. "Ring, Happy Bells ............................................................................... About the Author: Born in the Gilded Age, Elia W. Peattie stood at the door of the Progressive Era and held it open for a new generation of women who would continue to seek careers, gain universal suffrage for women, promote birth control, and fight vice, filth, corruption, ugliness, ignorance, and exploitation. Her intellectual background, her use of irony and humor, her ability to employ various genres and literary approaches, and her undaunted "imper

Elia Wilkinson Peattie was an author, journalist and critic. She began writing short stories for newspapers. Peattie wrote over 800 columns, editorials, and stories offering a voice to frontier women. This eBook contains Peattie's selected works (5 books in one volume) with Illustrations. This eBook is carefully formatted for eBook readers, easy to read, easy to navigate with fully functional table of contents.Included Works:1. Azalea: The Story Of A Little Girl In The Blue Ridge Mountains,2. Annie Laurie And Azalea,3. Azalea At Sunset Gap,4. Azalea’s Silver Web,5. The Precipice: A Novel

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.