American Sunday School Union
Autore di Favorite Hymns for Sunday Schools, Gospel Services, Young People's Meetings, and the Home
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Opere di American Sunday School Union
Favorite Hymns for Sunday Schools, Gospel Services, Young People's Meetings, and the Home (1913) 5 copie
The Union Bible Dictionary, for the Use of Schools, Bible Classes and Families: Prepared for the American Sunday-School… (1837) 2 copie
Favorite Hymns: For Sunday-Schools, Gospel Services, Young People's Meetings and the Home (Classic Reprint) (2016) 1 copia
The Penny hymn-book 1 copia
A Day in Mary Carrow's School 1 copia
The Five Blue Eggs 1 copia
The Sunny Side 1 copia
The Sunbeam Stories 1 copia
The Youthful Pilgrim 1 copia
Evidence of Christianity 1 copia
The Youth's Friend 1838 1 copia
Flowers by the way-side 1 copia
The teacher taught : an humble attempt to make the path of the Sunday-school teacher straight and plain (1838) 1 copia
The Happy Change 1 copia
The Drama of Drunkenness (1858) 1 copia
The Bow in the Cloud 1 copia
Jessie Browne, The Moorland Girl 1 copia
Helen's School Days 1 copia
Ellen Mordaunt; or, The fruits of true religion. — A cura di — 1 copia
Little George's First Journey 1 copia
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- Opere
- 61
- Utenti
- 81
- Popolarità
- #222,754
- Voto
- 2.5
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 6
Published in 1847 by the American Sunday School Union - the actual author is uncredited - Fanny Mansfield; or, The Adopted Sister is pretty standard mid-19th-century American fare for children, heavy on the Christian morality, with a saintly invalid to show the way to the poor young sinners. I was intrigued by the title, as the name of the heroine suggested Jane Austen's classic Mansfield Park to me, given that the heroine of that novel was also named Fanny, and that the home in which Austen's orphaned heroine came to live also bore the name Mansfield. Despite that superficial similarity - perhaps deliberate, to draw readers in? - there is no other real connection between the books. Some of the moralizing here felt over the top to me, probably because it was so overt, and Ellen is such a pattern-card of propriety that the reader might want to shake her. One can understand how an active young girl like Fanny might have looked askance at a peer her own age who liked to read gloomy books like Rise and Progress and Saints' Rest. On the other hand, some of the vices which Fanny needs to be led away from - namely, a certain snobbery against those less fortunate than herself, as well as a willingness to lie and go against her own moral compass, when urged on by someone like Gertrude - would be considered objectionable by many people, whatever their religious outlook. This is the second book I have read from the American Sunday School Union, after Christmas Holidays; or, A Visit at Home (1827), and I think I prefer it overall, as it has a more developed story than that earlier book. Although I wouldn't describe these as personal favorites, I do find them very interesting, in that they open a window into the lives of children in other times, and I certainly hope to read more at some point. Recommended to anyone interested in 19th-century American children's literature and/or the American Sunday School Union.… (altro)