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Resumen de La Dama de las Lilas
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Readers who enjoy warm family stories with a spirited heroine, comic mix-ups, gentle lessons about kindness, and old-fashioned small-town life with children, pets, parties, church socials and a mystery behind a garden wall.
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The Lilac Lady is a family novel by Ruth Brown MacArthur, set in and around the college town of Martindale in the days of streetcars, hand organs and the first red motor car. It is a sequel that follows Peace Greenfield, the liveliest of six orphaned sisters, after the university president and his wife take the whole flock into their big house. The book gives you a year of her life, from a bare winter arrival to a golden autumn.
Peace is a girl who talks without stopping, mixes up her words, climbs where she should not and gives away her own coats to anyone who looks cold. Her mistakes are funny, yet each one comes from a warm heart. Around her stand the Campbell grandparents, the minister Saint John and his wife Saint Elspeth, and a houseful of servants, teachers and playmates.
The heart of the story is a hidden garden behind a thick hedge, where a lonely young woman lies in a chair and has shut out the world. Peace finds her by whistling at a canary. What follows is a story about kindness that is learned, about small deeds that matter more than grand ones, and about a child who changes a house, a church and a city. Let us begin with the day the sisters arrive and are told to explore.
En este resumen
- 1Six sisters explore a new homeFree
- 2A Christmas of mischief and joy
- 3Giving must be learned with wisdom
- 4A spring at the parsonage
- 5The voice behind the lilac hedge
- 6A monkey, a street musician and a poem
- 7The Children's Home and a surprising song
- 8Children's Day and a Fourth of July
- 9What the book teaches and how it speaks
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Six sisters explore a new home
The story opens on the morning the six Greenfield sisters leave the little brown house in Parker. Their neighbors cheer them off, and a short train ride brings them to Martindale. There the college president, Dr. Campbell, waits in a smoky station and gathers them into his arms. His wife, Grandma, is right behind him.
The girls are Gail, Faith, Hope, Cherry, Peace and Allee. The president has a fond habit of naming them after saints. Gail is Saint Elizabeth because she helps the cook. Faith is Saint Cecilia because she cannot leave the piano. Hope is Saint Lucy because she tutors a boy from the hardware store in algebra. Cherry is Saint Bookworm because she vanishes into the library.
The grandparents hand over the house with a game. Each girl may explore on her own for ninety minutes and must report at lunch. Peace and Allee race from the attic to the barn, and Peace reports everything in one enormous rush. She has met Gussie the cook, Marie the maid, and Jud the horseman. She has also arranged lessons for half the household, including grammar for Jud, which she promises on Cherry's behalf.
The prize for the best report is the first choice of bedrooms. Peace argues that the sisters should pair off by who gets along, not by looks. She and Allee choose the room with the tiny balcony and a fixed rule that they must never use the porch pillars as a staircase.
The grandparents give each pair a sum of money for furnishing, and the rooms become a contest. One is pink and green like a woodland, one is blue and gold, and Peace and Allee make a flag room out of old bunting from the attic. They spend a little over nine dollars and keep the rest, with firecrackers in mind.
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Questions about La Dama de las Lilas
What is The Lilac Lady about?
It follows Peace Greenfield, one of six orphaned sisters adopted by a university president. Her warmth and mix-ups bring cheer to a minister's family, a children's home, a young street musician and a woman shut away in a walled garden.
Who is the Lilac Lady in the book?
She is a young woman named Myra who lost the use of her legs and her dream of singing after a riding accident. Peace gives her the nickname after the lilacs she shares from behind her hedge.
Do I need to read the earlier Peace Greenfield book first?
The story stands on its own. It reintroduces the six sisters, the Campbells and the Strongs as it goes, and the first chapters show how the girls settle into their new home.
What is the main message of The Lilac Lady?
The book shows that small, thoughtful acts of kindness do more good than grand gestures. Cheerful giving, done with care, can heal sadness, bring neighbors together and change a whole community.
Is The Lilac Lady a book for children or adults?
It is a family story with a child at its heart, told with humor and warm feeling. Young readers enjoy Peace's pranks, and adults enjoy its gentle lessons and its picture of everyday life in a college town.