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The Flower of the Family; a Book for Girls by Elizabeth Prentiss (1818 - 1878)
Genre(s): Family, Religion, Published 1800 -1900

Read by: ShrimpPhish in English

Parts:

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Comfortable Troubles
00:14:32 - 02 - Trouble Bearing Fruit
00:25:58 - 03 - Homely Discipline
00:37:27 - 04 - Arthur
00:52:00 - 05 - Baby Number Two
01:22:39 - 06 - Sorrow at Night, Joy in the Morning
01:42:23 - 07 - The Uncle's Visit
02:09:10 - 08 - New Scenes and New Friends
02:29:37 - 09 - A Glimpse at 'Society'
02:50:56 - 10 - The Sixteenth Birthday
03:10:57 - 11 - Good Intentions, if not Good Works
03:30:36 - 12 - The Consequences of a Prescription
03:50:32 - 13 - The Storm Before the Calm
04:18:41 - 14 - Cases of Conscience
04:32:09 - 15 - The Sea-Side
04:51:37 - 16 - Life at School
05:19:06 - 17 - The Holidays
05:39:20 - 18 - Lucy in Trouble
06:02:45 - 19 - A Visit from Miss Prigott
06:27:05 - 20 - Every Life has its Romance
06:47:29 - 21 - A Not Agreeable Surprise

With the exception of 'Stepping Heavenward,' no one of Mrs. Prentiss' larger books has had so wide a circulation, both at home and abroad, as The Flower of the Family. A French translation, entitled 'La Fleur de la Famille' has passed through five or six editions. It was also translated into German under the title, 'Die Perle der Farnilie' In both languages it received the warmest praise. The work depicts a marked, type of the family life of thirty years ago, which is becoming rare in our own day; and on this account, as well as for its intrinsic merits, deserves to be reprinted. Its aim cannot be better expressed than in the following extract from a letter of Mrs. Prentiss to a friend, written soon after its publication in 1854:I long to have it doing good. I never had such desires about anything in my life: and I never sat down to write without first praying that I might not be suffered to write anything that would do harm, and that, on the contrary, I might be taught to say what would do good. And it has been a great comfort to me that every word of praise I have ever received from others concerning it has been ' it will do good,' and this I have had from, so many sources that, amid much trial and sickness ever since its publication, I have had rays of sunshine creeping in now and then to cheer and sustain me.Numberless testimonies to its usefulness continued to cheer her to the end of her days. - Summary by The Note to the Present Edition