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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWeird---Rance Nelius, a character in Grace Livingston Hill's book Stranger Within the Gates, name so
Close to Rrince Priebus!?
Hill was a conservative Christian author of romance novels presenting a conservative Christian message.
I like some of them, eg, The Enchanted Barn and Cloudy Jewel.
In both these and others there are long descriptions of the main characters decorating their homes. They offer interesting info about what was viewed as good decorating among some circles at the beginning of the 20th century
catrose
(5,065 posts)I gobbled up her books when I was a teenager, though even then balking at "I read the Bible cover to cover, and there's not one contradiction in it, not one." Because, you see, I also read the Bible from cover to cover when I was 13, and it left me with...questions.
Things have changed in my mind and in the world in fifty years, but I do remember those books fondly for the companions they were to me. (Other people have friends. I have books.) And I remember thinking Rance Nelius was a weird name. Rince Priebus? Weirder.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)In Street of the City, which has a spy story framework, there's a Bible study group that expounds on 'the rapture' and the importance of careful study of the Schofield study Bible. Check out the disastrous influence that Bible has had on conservative Christianity. Note--it's still being read and closely studied today.
Igel
(35,300 posts)His first name is Reinhold. "Reince" is his nickname.
robbob
(3,527 posts)A dorky name is a dorky name, no matter the era...
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,975 posts)This old heathen just adores her books, which I first discovered in high school, and I'm pretty sure I've read them all (including the two you mentioned). I can do without the Christian stuff, but she had a real way with a word. I love the '20's, '30's, and '40's settings too. I think she had some even older than that.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)So you can maybe reread some
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,975 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Lots of Agatha Christie there too, I think
Here and at the other site type in at appropriate place the name of author you're looking for
At one or other I've found Carla Kelly books, Patricia Veryan, dragon riders of Pern books, Marion Zimmer Bradley books, Diana Wynne Jones books.
Older authors like Rex Stout and recent ones like the shifter series by Shelly Laurenston
And Anne Perry, Anne Bishop 'Others' series. If you haven't discovered them, try one
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,975 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)In good part to check out the notions of good decorating in her society of that era, but also on just being a person.
I find Edith Wharton's novels depressing, but her book instructing on appropriate decorating for her society very interesting. Halls within a home analogous to public streets, and decorated appropriately impersonally, due to all the servants and visitors. What a rigidly conservative, conforming snoot, though. She didn't allow many choices at all.
Thanks, Bobbieinok.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Decorating seems very in today, sort of Shaker style.
Mom (1913-2005) read Freckles and Girl as a kid and introduced them to me.
Harvester has lots of info about raising herbs. The culture is very conservative early 20th century
I like most of her books, but Her Father's Daughter really freaked me out. Set in CA, in the 20s if I remember correctly, it is EXTREMELY anti-oriental/anti-Japanese
Also father tells her HS boyfriend he's not to think of marriage until he's finished college and has spent several yrs earning to support a family. The father introduces her to an OK man who is already there