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Celia's House
Celia's House, filled with effervescent warmth and cheer, is the story of Dunnian -- a spellbindingly lovely family estate in Scottish Border country -- and of the generations of Dunne family that live in it and love it dearly. Beginning in 1905 with ninety-year-old Celia Dunne, it delightfully portrays the bustling life of her heir and grand-nephew, Humphrey Dunne, and hi...more
Hardcover, 255 pages
Published
February 1st 1977
by Holt McDougal
(first published January 1st 1961)
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This book is a re-telling of Mansfield Park. A few minor details are changed, but for the most part it's VERY faithful. (view spoiler) Not sure why the world needed another Mansfield at all, but I love so many of Stevenson's...more
This book covers about 40 years of one family's history. In 1905, old Celia Dunne is deciding who should inherit the family estate. She settles on her great-nephew, Humphrey Dunne, after she assures herself that he really loves the place like she does and would settle down there and raise his family. Her condition is that even though he already has 3 children, he must have another daughter and name her Celia, and that daughter must be the next heiress to the estate.
The Dunnes move in, years go b...more
The Dunnes move in, years go b...more
This is only the second D E Stevenson book I have read, most of her books are now out of print, and they are hugely sort after and very difficult to find. Therefore even though this is a registered bookcrossing book, I am keeping it for now - instead of passing it on ( bad bad bookcrosser!) and if I do come across another copy I will then let it travel on.
I absolutley loved this book. The book opens in 1905 with the first Ceila Dunne - 90 year old owner of Dunnian house. She informs her astonish...more
I absolutley loved this book. The book opens in 1905 with the first Ceila Dunne - 90 year old owner of Dunnian house. She informs her astonish...more
A delightful tale of three generations. Octogenarian Celia wills her home to her nephew's daughter Celia. The problem is that Humphrey doesn't have a daughter Celia yet. Years later, Celia and the other children do not know that Celia is the heir of the home and property. Everyone believes that Mark will inherit the home. When Mark is 12, Humphrey tells him and asks him not to keep it quiet. So Mark decides to becomes a doctor for his life work.
Celia watches her siblings meet and marry (some su...more
Celia watches her siblings meet and marry (some su...more
I read Celia's House many times before but after reading Mansfield Park. I noticed that D.E must have been inspired by Jane Austen. Deb is very similar to Fanny Price and other advents in the book are like Mansfield Park. It was fun reading through and finding the similarities
This was a fun book - quick read. Not something I'll keep on my shelf, but good for a break. It takes place in Scotland before and during WWII.
Another great book by one of my favorite authors. If you love Scotland, multigenerational family books, and books on WWII, this is one for you.
This was a multigenerational story of the people who lived in this house in Scotland. It was short on detail, but I tend to like these kind of stories and this was a great for light reading.
Not my favorite Stevenson, but contains enough of her usual charm and characterization to make a cozy afternoon of reading.
Loved it - got sucked in yet again and I've read it quite a few times now.
What's not to like about Deb and Celia and their neighbours and old Johnson he gardener.
And as always there is the beautiful countryside and life in a small Scottish village where everyone knows who you are and if they don't they know you're the much discussed visitor or newly arrived member long estranged from the family.
What's not to like about Deb and Celia and their neighbours and old Johnson he gardener.
And as always there is the beautiful countryside and life in a small Scottish village where everyone knows who you are and if they don't they know you're the much discussed visitor or newly arrived member long estranged from the family.
I really loved this book this time through. It takes many aspects of Austen's 'Mansfield Park' - without copying it. There were a few story-lines or characters we wished she had told us more about - but a very satisfying story, that centers around an estate in Scotland. The house really is almost a character in the story, and I enjoy this type of book.
One of D E Stevenson's best.
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Full name: Dorothy Emily Stevenson.
Cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson
D.E. Stevenson had an enormously successful writing career: between 1923 and 1970, four million copies of her books were sold in Britain and three million in the States. Like E.F. Benson, Ann Bridge, O. Douglas or Dorothy L. Sayers (to name but a few) her books are funny, intensely readable, engaging and dependable.
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Cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson
D.E. Stevenson had an enormously successful writing career: between 1923 and 1970, four million copies of her books were sold in Britain and three million in the States. Like E.F. Benson, Ann Bridge, O. Douglas or Dorothy L. Sayers (to name but a few) her books are funny, intensely readable, engaging and dependable.
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