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Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886–1967)

Forfatter af Years of Grace

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Værker af Margaret Ayer Barnes

Years of Grace (1976) 168 eksemplarer
Westward Passage (1931) 15 eksemplarer
Edna His Wife: An American Idyll (1935) 14 eksemplarer
Within This Present (1933) 11 eksemplarer
Dishonoured Lady [1947 film] (2000) — Screenwriter — 10 eksemplarer
Wisdom's gate 4 eksemplarer
Prevailing Winds 2 eksemplarer
Jaren onzes Heeren 1 eksemplar

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Fødselsdato
1886-04-08
Dødsdag
1967-10-26
Køn
female
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dødssted
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Bopæl
Pennsylvania, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Uddannelse
Bryn Mawr College
Erhverv
playwright
novelist
short story writer
Relationer
Fairbank, Janet Ayer (sister)
Kort biografi
Margaret Ayer Barnes was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a family that took a keen interest in civic affairs. Her older sister Janet Ayer Fairbank became a well-known suffragist and writer. Margaret graduated from Bryn Mawr with a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy in 1907. In 1910, she married Cecil Barnes, a prominent Chicago lawyer, with whom she had three sons. During these years, she served as alumnae director of Bryn Mawr and helped organize the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. In 1926, at age 40, her life changed dramatically when she was in an auto accident while vacationing in France and suffered a broken back, skull, and ribs. During her slow recovery, she took up writing with the encouragement of Edward Sheldon, a playwright whom she had met as a child. Between 1926 and 1930, she wrote several short stories and three plays, including a highly successful 1928 play adapted from Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence. In 1931, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her first novel, Years of Grace. Over the next eight years, she published four more novels, including Westward Passage (1931) and Edna His Wife (1935).

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Poor Edna is such a sad sack. She drifts through her days as life happens to her, never able to actively participate. She’s a bystander in her own life, in a world that belongs to her husband Paul. Edna is naive, dull, self-conscious, and suffers low self-esteem. The setting is a good realistic look at America before, during, and after WWI. Well written, but leaves the reader feeling a bit depressed. Edna is an Eeyore, or maybe a Charlie Brown.
 
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JanaKrause | Jan 29, 2022 |
A good read to reflect on life. Not super exciting, but enough to hold my attention. It is the book that that is referred to numerous times in Violets of March. It peaked my curiosity enough to buy it on eBay since it is out of print. I enjoyed the outlook of Jane as a teenager, married with children adult and then elder and her thoughts on her life and the lives of her children and parents and how it changes from one generation to the next.
 
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Weezer41 | 5 andre anmeldelser | Dec 27, 2020 |
A good read to reflect on life. Not super exciting, but enough to hold my attention. It is the book that that is referred to numerous times in Violets of March. It peaked my curiosity enough to buy it on eBay since it is out of print. I enjoyed the outlook of Jane as a teenager, married with children adult and then elder and her thoughts on her life and the lives of her children and parents and how it changes from one generation to the next.
 
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Weezer41 | 5 andre anmeldelser | Dec 27, 2020 |
As I've noted in Pulitzers of this age, the writing was incredibly simple. A very simple story - but one I liked. It was about Chicago from the 1890's to around the late 1920's. As an added bonus, it took place in my actual neighborhood! So I dug that, obviously. The writing though, was almost just a list of things that happened. Like, "Agnes went to the store. She bought cake there. She put the cake in the bag. She brought the cake home. She ate the cake” If this had been one of the first Pulitzers I'd read from that time I would probably have hated it. But I'm used the simple writing style and realize they used to award the Pulitzer more on story than writing style, as they do now.… (mere)
 
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agnesmack | 5 andre anmeldelser | Sep 5, 2011 |

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