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Readers who enjoy warm stories of friendship and faith will find a lively cast of young women, church and school life, and honest looks at temper, pride, and small acts of courage.
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What does faith look like on an ordinary Monday? Four friends come home from two weeks at Chautauqua, the great Sunday-school gathering, and want to live what they now believe. Pansy, an American author of Christian fiction, sends them into a cold Sunday school, a half-empty prayer meeting, card parties, dances, and the doubts of a pastor who fears them. Marion is a sharp-tongued teacher. Flossy is a soft-spoken butterfly of society. Ruth is a proud judge's daughter. Eurie is a quick-witted doctor's daughter.
En este resumen
- 1Four girls hesitate in their church hallFree
- 2Flossy takes the roughest class
- 3Small crosses on a rainy Monday
- 4The prayer meeting and the tableaux
- 5Standing up in a quiet church
- 6Cards, dancing, and what the Bible says
- 7Learning to work and to keep a promise
- 8Ruth's silence and a father's secret
- 9What the story is about and how it speaks
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Four girls hesitate in their church hall
The story opens on the last Sunday in August. Ruth, Flossy, Marion, and Eurie sit in their usual pews and look just as they did before. Nobody guesses what has changed inside them. Dr. Dennis, the pastor, looks down with a gloomy face and assumes they came to find something to laugh at.
After the service the girls decide to go to Sunday school. Suddenly they feel like children at a party without an invitation. Nobody asks them along, and the superintendent passes them by. They arrive in the middle of the opening prayer and take seats by the door. Eurie jokes, but the joke hides how much they long for someone to say come.
Marion makes a promise. If they ever truly belong, they should form a committee to welcome timid strangers. Then nobody will have to stand alone in the hall. The idea is small, but it shows what the girls have learned in a single morning.
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What is The Chautauqua Girls at Home about?
It follows four friends who return from the Chautauqua summer meeting with a new faith and try to live it in church, school, family, and society. Each faces trials of temper, pride, shyness, and loneliness, while their friendship grows.
What is Chautauqua in this book?
Chautauqua is the summer assembly where the girls attended Sunday-school meetings, lectures, and music. The experience changes how they see faith, and the book picks up when they return to their home city.
Who are the four girls?
They are Marion Wilbur, a teacher with a sharp tongue, Flossy Shipley, a gentle society girl, Ruth Erskine, a proud judge's daughter, and Eurie Mitchell, a witty doctor's daughter. Each has a different temperament and a different struggle.
Is The Chautauqua Girls at Home a true story?
It is a novel, not a true story. The author, Isabella Alden, wrote under the name Pansy, and it is set in an unnamed city, with the Chautauqua meetings as a real background.
Is it easy to read?
Yes, in a good sense: it is told in short, lively scenes with plenty of dialogue and humor. Each chapter has a clear event, such as a Sunday school class, a Monday in the kitchen, or a party.