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Ruth Marlene Friesen: Wishing You A Blest Christmas!
This site is like Ruthe,
the heroine of my novel,
Ruthe's Secret Roses
Ruthe is. . .
intimate with God,
prays a lot,
a bleeding heart for the hurting,
a big sister,
rescues friends,
has creative ideas,
likes to give
surprise gifts,
loyal to friends,
dreams of love and
marriage,
dreams of writing a book
goes the extra mile
So this site offers;
a good books to read!
help to become Friends with God,
The One Ideal Real Friend
a cure for loneliness
An Older Sister's Coping Secret
how to pray Panic Prayers,
& regularly/daily
devotionals,
how to grow in faith
Christian mentoring,
how to share your faith
character development
how to become a writer
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chapters as an eBOOK in
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to start READING HERE!
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Devotionals
Wish you could have a heart-to-heart talk with God?
Ruthe does. All the time, where ever she goes, she's having a running conversation with the one she calls Lord, or my Best Friend. You've got to meet Ruthe! AND her Secret Roses.
You don't really have time to read on the couch, but if you're like me, you do read snatches on the
run, and somehow make time to read a GOOD book completely.
So how can you be sure this Ruthe in the book is not some kook? Read the eight sample chapters.
You've heard of power naps at work, right? You rise refreshed, bright and alert. Take a break to refresh your spirit with a good inspirational story.
Do you eat novels like chocolates? Here's one with both weight and excellent flavour! For a satisfying treat, read Ruthe's Secret Roses
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A Book I can Highly Recommend
Phronsie Peppper
The youngest of the "Five Little Peppers"
by Margaret Sidney
author of:
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, D. Lothrop, 1881
Illustrated by Arthur Becher
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York.
Copyright, 1807, by Lthrop Publishing Company
That's the information in this old copy I have in hand. Doing some research online I made some
exciting discoveries about the author of the Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, a
book that I received for Christmas shortly after I learned to read at about age seven, and I read it
over many times to my younger siblings.
Until this Phronsie Pepper book came into my hands just before Christmas 2005 I had no idea
that the author had written a series about this delightful family. I really knew nothing of her at
all until I put her name into Google.
It turns out this woman was famous for writing a whole series about that poor Pepper family back in
Queen Victoria's day. She was part of the very begining of books written expressly for children, and
in series no less! I had no idea!
First, I should say about this particular book, that I enjoyed it a lot. In this book, Phronsie,
the cute baby in the Five Peppers book is grown up, but not married yet. Her romance is the
centre of this story. However, there are little nieces and nephews in the book, so it is still
very much a family book.
I guess I have grown up some over the last fifty years, and got used to our modern media, because I
sure did notice the sweetness of the victorian touch, yet I found it strangely a relief from
the bluntness and harshness of much of today's literature.
Was I ever glad to see some godly parenting and teaching of moral standards woven right into the
story as if it belonged there. No apologies.
In this book Phronsie Pepper ends up going aboard with Mr. King their long-time benefactor, who has
become their beloved grandfather. He is trying to make up for the fact that he drove away the young
man that wanted to propose to Phronsie, because he thinks he will be deprived of his pet. She ends
up nursing that young man back to health, and of course, does marry him.
The further I read, the more I began to prize this book. The hard cover is a plain brown, and the
pages are also browned with age, but it makes wonderful reading, and I shall treasure it until just
the right neice or great-niece is ripe for it.
In case you have not "discovered" this author before, let me share with you what I've found today.
Margaret Sidney was the pen name of Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop. There is a delightful write up
on her life and writings on the
ReadSeries.com site by Norma Bright Carson, who interviewed Mrs. Lothrop herself. Carson
describes how Lothrop entertained herself with the Pepper children in her daydreams for years
before she entered a short story in a magazine, and then another, and then the requests began to
pour in for a whole book. Then more books!
The Lothrops lived in the same house where Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott (at
different times) had lived, and she did much to preserve the place, as well as other homes of
well-known authors of that day. Her husband was a publisher, and they were very much a part of the
publishing scene in New England.
I learned of the other titles, and I see that most of them have been published online at the
Project Gutenberg. The Series by Margaret Sidney;
* Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1880) Online at Project Gutenberg
* Five Little Peppers Midway (1890) Online at Project Gutenberg
* Five Little Peppers Grown Up (1892) Online at Project Gutenberg
* Phronsie Pepper, the Youngest of the Five Little Peppers (1897)
* Stories Polly Pepper Told (1899)
* Adventures of Joel Pepper (1900) Online at Project Gutenberg
* Five Little Peppers Abroad (1902) Online at Project Gutenberg
* Five Little Peppers at School (1903)
* Five Little Peppers and their Friends (1904) Online at Project Gutenberg
* Ben Pepper (1905)
* Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House (1907)
* Our Davie Pepper (1916)
I haven't checked each book individually, but if it appears on the Gutenberg.org site, it is most
likely in the public domain and you are free to put that book on your web site or create an e-book
of it to give away. Or, I suppose you can sell it if you produce in a unique or special way.
ReadSeries.com/ collects OLD childrens's series
and has background info and lists. You can also get to read sample chapters at
ClassicReader.com.
I'm not sure but I think ALL of the Five Little Peppers book is on
Acacia.pair.com! I
found most of the chapters at any rate. Part of the Joel Pepper book is at
online-literature.com.
Obviously, I haven't come to the bottom of this. Now I must read the rest if I possibly can!
Perhaps you are such a thoroughly modern Milly, that you do not care for old Victorian era
children's series, but if you have never tried them, I think you ought to do the fair and tolerant
thing, and read at least one or two of these books about the Pepper family. Give yourself
permission to enjoy the moment by moment scenes or ordinary life in a family where the siblings
love each other most of the time, and truly care for one another no matter what befalls them.
You are bound to come away refreshed and wishing for such kind relationships in your own life.
So far I haven't discovered too exotic prices for these old books if you find one, except that on
Amazon you can get a used one for over $30, and some in worse shape for less. However, you should
feel free to download and read the free editions off of the Guttenberg.org site, and of course print
them out if you prefer them on paper.
This book is available at;
It would seem there are many editions to some of this series, so it pays to shop around.
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