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What happens when the courage to believe must become the courage to act at home?
In The Chautauqua Girls at Home, Pansy follows young women as they return from Chautauqua to ordinary life. The summer gatherings bring study, worship and self-improvement. Now their ideals meet the demands of home, church and neighborhood, where belief becomes a matter of daily choices.
Friendship gives these questions a human shape. The young women differ in temperament, background and habits. They encourage one another, disagree and sometimes disappoint each other. Shaped by Protestant Christian faith, Pansy's story asks how people live out their convictions when courage means facing everyday responsibilities rather than danger.
What you’ll discover
- Conviction close to home Explore what cherished ideals mean in a kitchen, a church and a neighborhood.
- Friendship with its differences Follow a circle of young women whose different habits bring encouragement and disappointment.
- The courage of daily choices Consider a quieter kind of bravery, rooted in the effort to live what you believe.
- The Chautauqua connection Enter a story shaped by summer gatherings devoted to study, worship and self-improvement.
- Faith put into practice See how Pansy places Christian convictions within the familiar demands of ordinary life.
Who will love it
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.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Four girls hesitate in their church hall
- Flossy takes the roughest class
- Small crosses on a rainy Monday
- The prayer meeting and the tableaux
- Standing up in a quiet church
- Cards, dancing, and what the Bible says
- Learning to work and to keep a promise
- Ruth's silence and a father's secret
- What the story is about and how it speaks
Who’s who
- Marion WilburA sharp-tongued schoolteacher who once mocked the Bible and now longs to live by it, though her temper and loneliness still trip her.
- Flossy ShipleyA small, graceful society girl whose gentle honesty wins the roughest boys and who must find courage to say no to her father and Colonel Baker.
- Ruth ErskineThe judge's proud, polished daughter who wants Christian work but wants to choose it, and who must learn to be led.
- Eurie MitchellThe doctor's quick-witted eldest daughter who jokes her way through hard days and hopes to bring her brother Nellis to faith.
- Dr. DennisThe anxious pastor of First Church, who fears the girls at first and then welcomes them, and who is drawn to Marion.
- Colonel BakerA charming, sarcastic gentleman who has long courted Flossy and cannot understand why she is changing.
- Judge ErskineRuth's stately father, a successful man of business who carries a secret that keeps him from the faith he wants.
- Gracie DennisThe pastor's bright, proud daughter who clashes with Marion and then becomes her dearest pupil.
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Las jóvenes de Chautauqua en casa
by Pansy · 1877
Four friends come home from Chautauqua to a church that doesn't expect them and a city that will test every promise.
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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.
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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.
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Pansy. The Chautauqua Girls at Home. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-chautauqua-girls-at-home.
Pansy. (2026). The Chautauqua girls at home. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-chautauqua-girls-at-home (Original work published 1877)
Pansy. The Chautauqua Girls at Home. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-chautauqua-girls-at-home.
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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.
The author
Pansy
American religious novelist
Pansy was the pen name of Isabella Macdonald Alden (1841–1930), an American writer. She was born in Rochester, New York, and died in Palo Alto, California. She wrote Christian novels and books for children during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including The Chautauqua Girls at Home.
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