Elizabeth Prentiss (1818–1878)
Autore di Stepping Heavenward
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Drawing of Elizabeth Prentiss from the frontispiece of The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss By Provided by the Wheaton College Archives - From the frontispiece of The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, compiled by her husband George Lewis Prentiss (New York: Randolph & Co., 1882), PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31574956
Opere di Elizabeth Prentiss
Six Little Princesses And What They Turned Into And Other Fairy Tales (1907) by Prentiss, Elizabeth published by… (2010) 5 copie
An Elizabeth Prentiss Treasury: Stepping Heavenward & The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (2013) 2 copie
Little Susy's six birthdays 1 copia
The story Lizzie told 1 copia
The Percys 1 copia
Stepping Heavenward, Christian Victory in Daily Living, for Men and Women, Young and Old (1996) 1 copia
Six little princesses 1 copia
Herman, the Little Preacher 1 copia
The Greylock House 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1818-10-26
- Data di morte
- 1878-08-13
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, Vermont, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Portland, Maine, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Dorset, Vermont, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 33
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 2,414
- Popolarità
- #10,621
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 14
- ISBN
- 124
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 2
Stepping Heavenward was published in 1869 by Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss, daughter of the Rev. Edward Payson, D.D. and wife of Presbyterian pastor George Prentiss. She was a loving mother and homemaker and desired to bring to her readers, "patience, fidelity, hope, and all goodness by showing how trust in God and loving obedience to His blessed will brighten the darkest paths and make a heaven upon earth."
The story follows the journey of Katherine as she steps into young womanhood on her sixteenth birthday to her later grown up years in her late 30s. She learns that true satisfaction is found in serving others and allowing herself to be used by God as a wife, mother, and homemaker---and helper in her community as God leads her.
After finishing this book, I craved more spiritually-minded reading. It was so encouraging---the author exposed the heart of a young woman to perfection. We think of Victorians as so pious but people in her day were dealing with the same heart issues and questions about God that we do today.
I actually picked up several book suggestions from reading, Stepping Heavenward, including Thomas a Kempis', The Imitation of Christ. I was blessed to find an antique copy of it at our library book sale just a day or two after putting it on my wish list.
Stepping Heavenward is a book I'll come back to again and again. I can't wait to share it with my daughters, when the time is right, and I'm so encouraged by the examples of Godly women, both in Mrs. Prentiss and in the characters she's created.… (altro)