Grace Livingston Hill Collection, No. 1: According to the Pattern / An Unwilling Guest / The Esselstynes

Hill, Grace Livingston

ISBN 10: 1557485291 / ISBN 13: 9781557485298

Published by Spring Arbor Distributors, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grace Livingston Hill Collection, No. 1: According to the Pattern / An Unwilling Guest / The Esselstynes
• Publisher: Spring Arbor Distributors
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557485291
• ISBN 13: 9781557485298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

For generations, Grace Livingston Hill has been one of the most popular authors of inspirational romance. Find out for yourself why her stories continue to captivate readers of all ages. Grace Livingston Hill (1865-1947) has long been a favorite of readers who enjoy Christian fiction. Her books, generally set in the early 1900's, portray eternal truths in a way that readers of any age will enjoy. Well researched and historically accurate, Mrs. Hill's books are regarded as touchstones of the era. Readers can visualize with little difficulty the many residences, both grand and simple, the manners of the day, the appropriate costumes and the quality of life. Indeed, the deft blending of history, romsnce, and Christian faith is the touchstone of Grace Livingston Hill.

About the Author

Grace Livingston Hill was born on April 16, 1865 to a Presbyterian Minister, Charles and a published author, Marcia, in Wellsville, New York. For her twelfth birthday, Hills Aunt Pansy had one of her stories published in a book of short stories. This was the beginning of Hills career as a writer. In 1886, Hill and her family moved to Winter Park, Florida, where she got a job teaching gymnastics at a local college. She wrote her first real book there, in an effort to raise money for a family vacation to Chautauqua Lake. The book was called Chatauqua Idyl and was published in 1887 by D. Lothrop and Company, the same publisher that printed her first story when she was twelve. Hill was eventually married and began a family, but lost her husband to appendicitis. At this point in her life, her writing was the only means she had to keep food on the table and money in her pockets. In her lifetime, Hill wrote over a hundred books, only two of which were non-fiction. Grace Livingston Hill died in 1947 at the age of 82.