Christmas Roses, and Other Stories

by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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Genres: Christmas

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1920

About the author

Anne Douglas Sedgwick (28 March 1873 – 19 July 1935) was an American-born British writer. The daughter of a businessman, she was born in Englewood, New Jersey but at age nine her family moved to London. Although she made return visits to the United States, she lived in England for the remainder of her life.
In 1908, she married the British essayist and journalist, Basil de Sélincourt. During World War I she and her husband were volunteer workers in hospitals and orphanages in France.
Her novels explored the contrast in values between Americans and Europeans. Her best-selling novel Tante was made into a 1919 film, The Impossible Woman and The Little French Girl into a 1925 film of the same name. In 1931, she was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters. Four of her books were on the list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1912, 1924, 1927, and 1929 as determined by the New York Times.
Anne Douglas Sedgwick died in Hampstead, England in 1935.[1] The following year her husband published Anne Douglas Sedgwick: A Portrait in Letters.[2]

Reviews

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Garden of Bittersweetness.

🖊 Reading this collection of nine bittersweet short stories was heart rendering. The stories are written with emotion and insight, and each portraying brotherly love at its most triumphant, yet with that necessary sentimentality that touches the innermost part of the soul. I enjoyed reading this collection, and I like that each story is titled after flowers, most appropriate to the theme of the story.

CONTENTS
CHRISTMAS ROSES
HEPATICAS
DAFFODILS
PANSIES
PINK FOXGLOVES
CARNATIONS
STAKING A LARKSPUR
EVENING PRIMROSES
AUTUMN CROCUSES

📕Published in 1920.

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[Jessica Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked it more than I thought I would

This is period English literature: Early 20th century circa WWI. It's sad in most spots, but rather triumphal too. Give it a try.

[Deb · Rating 3 out of 5]

These short stories are mostly about deaths (mostly in WWI) and beautiful flowers and gardens. The author comes across as heartless and mean, more often than not. For example, in one story a mother decides it's better for her son to have died in battle than to live tied to the chorus girl he married (shades of the Nutmeg Tree!) In the last story, a shell shocked soldier is told not to be bitter about the war - after all, even though he watched his best friend (lover?) suffer for three days hanging on barbed wire in no-man's land, it's worse to watch a loved one die from cancer!