Mary Martha Sherwood

Broschiertes Buch

Jamie Gordon

Or The Orphan (1851)

Beschreibung

Jamie Gordon: Or The Orphan is a novel written by Mary Martha Sherwood and published in 1851. The story revolves around the life of a young boy named Jamie Gordon, who is left orphaned after his parents die in a shipwreck. Jamie is taken in by a wealthy family, but is treated poorly by his new guardians and forced to work as a servant. Despite his difficult circumstances, Jamie remains optimistic and determined to make a better life for himself. Along the way, he encounters various challenges and learns important life lessons about perseverance, kindness, and forgiveness. The novel is a heartwarming tale of resilience and hope, and offers a poignant commentary on the social injustices of the time.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Autor

Mary Martha Sherwood was a nineteenth-century English children's writer. The best-known of her more than four hundred writings are The History of Little Henry and His Bearer (1814), as well as the two volumes The History of Henry Milner (1822-1837) and The History of the Fairchild Family (1818-1847). Her evangelicalism permeated her early writings, although her later works address popular Victorian subjects like domesticity. Mary Martha Butt married Captain Henry Sherwood and relocated to India for eleven years. She converted to evangelical Christianity, built schools for army commanders' children and indigenous Indian children, adopted abandoned or orphaned children, and established an orphanage. She was motivated to write literature for youngsters in military camps. Sherwood's career was divided into three periods: the romantic period (1795-1805), the evangelical period, during which she wrote her most popular and significant works, and the post-evangelical period. Her writing was characterized by "her conviction of inherent human corruption," her idea that literature "had a catechetical utility" for all levels of society, her opinion that "the dynamics of family life" should reflect basic Christian teachings, and her "virulent" anti-Catholicism. Sherwood's work has been described as "one of the most significant authors of children's literature of the nineteenth century". Her representations of domesticity and ties to India may have affected many young readers, but her work declined in popularity as children's literature expanded in the late nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9781104135218
• ISBN-10: 1104135213
• Artikelnr.: 26448517