पेरिलस पर मदरिंग: Mothering on Perilous, Hindi edition

by Lucy Furman

यहाँ मैं रेलमार्ग के अंत में हूँ, जो पहाड़ों में मेरी दो-दिवसीय वैगन-यात्रा शुरू करने की प्रतीक्षा कर रहा है। लेकिन स्कूल वैगन नहीं आया है, -मेरी मकान मालकिन का कहना है कि यह क्रीक में एक "ज्वार" से देरी हो रही है। मुझे खुश करने के माध्यम से, उसने सिर्फ बीस साल पुराने झगड़े का एक ग्राफिक खाता दिया है, जिसके लिए यह छोटा सा शहर कुख्यात है, और यहां तक ​​कि मुझे चारों ओर ले जाने और दीवारों, फर्श और अदालत के घर के चरणों में दिखाने की पेशकश की है रक्त-धब्बे जहाँ सात या आठ सामंतों ने नाश किया है। मैंने जाने से मना कर दिया, -इस तरह की चीजों को जानना काफी दुखद है, बिना आमने-सामने देखे। इसके अलावा, मेरे पास पर्याप्त है जो अपने स्वयं के विचारों में निराशाजनक है। जब मैंने कल से एक दिन पहले पुराने घर के दरवाजों को बंद कर दिया, तो मुझे लगा कि जब यह कब्र से भटकता है तो भूत हो सकता है। एक साल से मैं इस जगह से दूर नहीं था; ऐसा लग रहा था कि मुझे फिर कभी जाने की हिम्मत नहीं होनी चाहिए। क्योंकि मैं वह हूं, जिसकी मृत्यु ने सब कुछ लूट लिया है, केवल मेरे वर्तमान का नहीं बल्कि मेरे भविष्य का। पिछले सात वर्षों में सभी चले गए हैं; और एक साल पहले माँ के गुजरने के साथ, मेरे अस्तित्व का बहुत कारण बन गया।

Genres: Historical Fiction

156 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1913

About the author

Lucy Salome Furman attracted national attention with her popular short stories and novels about small-town and rural life in both eastern and western Kentucky around the turn of the last century.

Furman was born in Henderson County to Williams B. Furman, a physician, and Jessie (Collins) Furman. They died when she was a child, and Furman moved across the Ohio River to Evansville, Indiana. She graduated from Sayre School in Lexington in 1885 and moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, and then back to Evansville in 1889. Furman began supporting herself as a court stenographer and writer.

She wrote a series of short stories that were serialized in Century Magazine, 1894-1896, and then published as a book, Stories of a Sanctified Town(1896). The stories were fictionalized accounts of life in Robards, a small Henderson County community.

Furman moved to the mountains of Knott County in 1907 to take a job as director of grounds, gardens, and livestock at Hindman Settlement School, which had been established five years earlier. During 17 years on the Hindman staff, Furman turned her observations into short fiction for Century Magazine and The Atlantic and five best-selling novels.

Furman returned to Henderson in 1924 and became an animal rights activist. She wrote and lectured about the cruelty of steel-jaw traps and became vice president of the Anti-Steel Trap League, based in Washington, D.C. In 1934, Furman proposed an anti-steel trap bill to Kentucky’s General Assembly, which was later approved. She retired in 1953 and moved to Cranford, New Jersey, where she lived with a nephew.

source: The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful story of a woman who thinks her life is over when she goes into the Appalachian mountains to bring some civilization to the school-age children. But when she loses her heart to a houseful of young boys, she finds her heart slowly warming and living again. Soon a feud threatens all she holds dear; will her new life end in ashes also?

Simply endearing and often humorous.

Ebook here: https://archive.org/details/mothering...

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful story of a woman who, in her grief of losing her loved ones, chooses to move to a mountain mission and teach a group of boys. When she realizes that, even more than a teacher, they need a mother, she moves into a cottage on the school grounds and gathers around her 12 boys who need mothering. There is a lot of humor, excitement, and pathos in her account of trying to turn these rough boys into mannered gentlemen. But it is definitely a story worth reading.

Read at Project Gutenberg.

[Joy C · Rating 4 out of 5]

I listened to this on LibriVox and really enjoyed it. A women grieving family loss takes a job teaching boys in the mountains of Kentucky. Humorous stories of her attempts to raise up gentlemen out of a motley crew of mountain boys. Also an over arching story line of a very serious situation putting a child in danger. Also her story of how serving in this area helped her find healing. This was written in 1913 so there are some disciplines used that would be frowned upon today. I found it to be honest and respectful to those living in the Appalachia at during this time frame. There is one or two racist remarks, without condoning them, it is reflective of the time and place. Laura Victoria was the reader for the version I listened and I thought she did a great job on the accents. Accent are one of the reasons I enjoy listening to books.

[Diane Cantrill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful story about a young women who forgets her grief working at a KY settlement school. Dialect and format a little difficult.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed her book but not Lucy Furman's best novel.

[Karina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Coming soon to Project Gutenberg. Just after I "smoothread" it and add some finishing touches to the HTML version (mainly the descriptions for the illustrations).

Fun little story. I'm just on Chapter 6.

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I'm done, and I forgot to update this. The eBook is now available on Project Gutenberg. This is a story of a woman who had some tragic loss, and is now taking care of school children in the country and how that affects her. By modern standards this is a bit of a slow-moving story. I had trouble keeping the children apart, although there were certainly some unforgettable characters, in particular one enterprising kid who benefited from any trade he made (usually by conning someone into it at least in the perception of Miss Loring).