Beyond Beautiful Girlhood Plus Companion Guide

by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, Shelly Noonan (Editor)

The next step in the Beautiful Girlhood series! Is your daughter prepared for life? Have you taught her how to manage a home, life, and spirit? Mothers, you know the transition from carefree girlhood to the daybreak of womanhood can be the most frightening and exciting of times for your daughter! This book has often been described as a glorified home economics course because of the Biblical manner in which it deals with the transition. A 7-21 week journey for young women and their mothers to travel together! Ages 12-18.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published May 3, 2000

About the author

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (pen name, Aunt Marjorie) was an American poet, author, and editor. Her poetry was inspired by family and church themes, and included hymns and sacred texts. She worked in several fields including book reviewing, story writing, and verse making. For a quarter of a century, Sangster was known by the public as a writer, beginning as a writer of verse, and combining later the practical work of a critic and journalist. Much of her writing did not include her name.

Her literary productions were numerous, and she was a regular contributor to many of the leading periodicals. She gradually drifted into editorial work, and in 1871, she became the editor of Hearth and Home. In 1873, she took an editorial position on the Christian at Work, which she held for six years. In 1879, she joined the staff of the Christian Intelligencer, and served as assistant editor until 1888. In 1882, she added to her work the editing of Harper's Young People, then starting. In 1890, she became the editor of Harper's Bazar. During these busy years, she also wrote poetry. Her miscellaneous work included stories, sketches, essays, editorial comment, criticisms, and other writing implied in the journalistic positions she held. Her published books are Manual of Missions of the Reformed Church in America (New York, 1878); Poems of the Household (Boston, 1883); Home Fairies and Heart Flowers (New York, 1887), and a series of Sunday school books.

She married George Sangster, of Williamsburgh, New York, in 1858, and accepted the care of a family of children, and was a successful stepmother. She had one child of her own, a son, George Sangster, a journalist, later becoming a grandmother to Margaret E. Sangster, a writer and magazine editor. She made her home in Brooklyn, where she was active in connection with church and Sunday-school work. She essentially gave up writing until after his death in 1871; she never remarried.

Reviews

[Daphne Mulner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still great thoughts and wise advice after 100 years! My daughter and I enjoyed our conversations from the journal sections, but didn’t use the quiet time sections. I highly recommend this book for teen daughters and mothers.

[Chrisy]

This book was absolutely beautiful!