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SATURDAY'S CHILD
SATURDAY'S CHILD
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Kathleen Norris, who during her summers, made her home Port Washington, Long Island, where there was a little group of literary folks, including Burges Johnson, Ethel Watts Mumford, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Wallace Irwin, Sinclair Lewis and William Rose Benet.
Her novel, "Saturday's Child," was originally published by the Macmillan Co. This is her longest work, containing more than 180,000 words. It is the story of the life of a very modern girl, whose experiences take her into different kinds of society. The significance of the title comes from the old jingle, "Saturday's child must work for her living."
The story of Susan Brown's quest for what Norris calls "The Great Adventure" proves a thrilling tale. And by "The Great Adventure" she means the love of a man and a woman for each other, culminating in a perfect marriage, children and a home. Susan fails to meet the "great adventure" in poverty or in wealth, but encounters it in service. Few books, indeed, contain three such stirring love stories as are embodied in "Saturday's Child."
Norris has apparently drawn largely upon her own experiences in writing this book. Many of the episodes that occur during Susan's connection with the firm of Hunter, Baxter & Hunter are the record of actual events observed by the author while she was bookkeeping in the employ of the hardware firm after her parents' death. The scathing arraignment to which she subjects San Francisco's society she is well qualified to make. Not only was she herself part of it before necessity drove her into the ranks of the wage-earners, but, in the capacity of society editor on two of San Francisco's daily papers, she was able to obtain an intimate knowledge of its inside workings and view it from an admirable vantage point. "Mother," the book that made Kathleen Norris beloved in thousands of American homes, is known to be her first great success.
Her novel, "Saturday's Child," was originally published by the Macmillan Co. This is her longest work, containing more than 180,000 words. It is the story of the life of a very modern girl, whose experiences take her into different kinds of society. The significance of the title comes from the old jingle, "Saturday's child must work for her living."
The story of Susan Brown's quest for what Norris calls "The Great Adventure" proves a thrilling tale. And by "The Great Adventure" she means the love of a man and a woman for each other, culminating in a perfect marriage, children and a home. Susan fails to meet the "great adventure" in poverty or in wealth, but encounters it in service. Few books, indeed, contain three such stirring love stories as are embodied in "Saturday's Child."
Norris has apparently drawn largely upon her own experiences in writing this book. Many of the episodes that occur during Susan's connection with the firm of Hunter, Baxter & Hunter are the record of actual events observed by the author while she was bookkeeping in the employ of the hardware firm after her parents' death. The scathing arraignment to which she subjects San Francisco's society she is well qualified to make. Not only was she herself part of it before necessity drove her into the ranks of the wage-earners, but, in the capacity of society editor on two of San Francisco's daily papers, she was able to obtain an intimate knowledge of its inside workings and view it from an admirable vantage point. "Mother," the book that made Kathleen Norris beloved in thousands of American homes, is known to be her first great success.
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