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A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story
A Rose of a Hundred Leaves - A Love Story is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1891
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Amelia E. Barr
135 books10 followersAmelia Edith Barr, née Huddleston, was an English American novelist. (See also under Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr.)
In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters, Mrs. Barr moved to Ridgewood,New Jersey in 1868. She came there to tutor the three sons of a prominent citizen, William Libby, and opened a school in a small house. This structure still stands at the southwest corner of Van Dien and Linwood Avenues.
Amelia Barr did not like Ridgewood and did not remain there for very long. She left shortly after selling a story to a magazine.[Caldwell,William A.,et al.,"The History of a Village, Ridgewood,N.J.," State Tercentenary Committee, c. 1964, p. 32] In 1869, she moved to New York City where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels.
By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft. The name has been applied to that period of her career, the most productive and successful. She remained there until moving in with her daughter Lilly in White Plains in her last years.
In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters, Mrs. Barr moved to Ridgewood,New Jersey in 1868. She came there to tutor the three sons of a prominent citizen, William Libby, and opened a school in a small house. This structure still stands at the southwest corner of Van Dien and Linwood Avenues.
Amelia Barr did not like Ridgewood and did not remain there for very long. She left shortly after selling a story to a magazine.[Caldwell,William A.,et al.,"The History of a Village, Ridgewood,N.J.," State Tercentenary Committee, c. 1964, p. 32] In 1869, she moved to New York City where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels.
By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft. The name has been applied to that period of her career, the most productive and successful. She remained there until moving in with her daughter Lilly in White Plains in her last years.
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July 16, 2016
An old-fashioned romance, with a charm of olden days and a beauty of character in the heroine. The path of love is not easy for Aspatria Anneys or her brothers. She proves herself a woman worthy of being won, however; she does not sell herself cheaply in any way.
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February 9, 2017
It is something between a sweet historical romance and a fairy-tale. It was a pleasurable reading. And I was really surprised how it went on (not all the time, but novels in style of fairy-tale are rather predictable, so every surprise is... a nice surprise ;-) ).
There was a moment when I thought it would be even better, but an author chose to end up in a simpler way. I think it was waste of a good concept and story.
Nonetheless, I like it. I would like it 3.5 star but I can't give it 4. I can't forgive this hesitation between a simple (although really sweet) fairy-tale love and a good psychological story with a moral. I don't mind mixing genres but in this book I felt rather an indecision than a smooth mixing.
But still, if you search for a short novel with a charming love with obstacles you can honestly try it.
There was a moment when I thought it would be even better, but an author chose to end up in a simpler way. I think it was waste of a good concept and story.
Nonetheless, I like it. I would like it 3.5 star but I can't give it 4. I can't forgive this hesitation between a simple (although really sweet) fairy-tale love and a good psychological story with a moral. I don't mind mixing genres but in this book I felt rather an indecision than a smooth mixing.
But still, if you search for a short novel with a charming love with obstacles you can honestly try it.
March 14, 2015
Sweet old-fashioned love story.
September 25, 2023
Too quick of an ending!
Great storyline in that era and the vocabulary was precise. A good short piece. Although I had wish the ending wasn't abrupt yet this would be a great TV series
Great storyline in that era and the vocabulary was precise. A good short piece. Although I had wish the ending wasn't abrupt yet this would be a great TV series
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