Gay as a Grig : : Memories of a North Texas Girlhood / / Ellen Bowie Holland.
Ellen Bowie Holland grew up in a house at Weatherford, Texas, that had the "motherly look of a large and gallant hen hovering over too many chicks" and that was inhabited by a "lively, warm-hearted family." This book is her record of the "whole world of little things which e...
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Holland, Ellen Bowie, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Gay as a Grig : Memories of a North Texas Girlhood / Ellen Bowie Holland. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2012] ©1963 1 online resource (200 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Personal Narratives of the West Frontmatter -- THE FIRST PAGE -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- 1 The Armstrongs -- 2. The Bowies -- 3. Courtship and Marriage -- 4. William Bowie in Texas -- 5. End of the Pastoral Interlude -- 6. White Castle, Louisiana -- 7. The House -- 8. Early Years -- 9. Weatherford -- 10. Family Fictives -- 11. Menage and Menagerie -- 12. Training -- 13. Locusts -- 14. A Young Lady -- 15. This Plastic Age -- THE LAST PAGE restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Ellen Bowie Holland grew up in a house at Weatherford, Texas, that had the "motherly look of a large and gallant hen hovering over too many chicks" and that was inhabited by a "lively, warm-hearted family." This book is her record of the "whole world of little things which enriched young lives" in her small town. Blessed with a discerning and sympathetic eye, she had much happiness to remember and record, and she employs a charming combination of nostalgia and comedy as she brings to life again these bygone days. Her childhood experiences are illuminated by the wisdom of maturity, and the whole is infused with a deft humor, developed through her skilled use of fantasy and through her ability to laugh at the pretensions of the Victorian life she saw. Holland's book also is memorable as a record of her unforgettable parents: "Mother was born on Columbus Day, and she and Columbus had a lot in common. She liked to discover things for herself and nothing pleased her more than to nicely finish off a job that she had been told could not be done" . . . "She wasn't geared for solitary musing. Like a salmon at spawning time she liked to swim upstream against rushing waters and bash into boulders" . . . "Mother's pattern of neatness reached out in all directions" . . . "Mother, sheathed like an armadillo" . . . "Father, silk-hatted, or swallow-tailed, distinguished almost beyond belief" . . . "I never heard him raise his voice or laugh aloud" . . . "Father was not witty but he had an absolutely delightful sense of nonsense. His humor came smoothly upon the scene" . . . Throughout the book the reader shares the author's consciousness of the vast distance between her own childhood and that of the grandchildren to whom the book is dedicated—a distance created by rapid technological change. "From my window I look over an air-conditioned city and I see jets streaking across the sky and occasionally I hear one of them breaking the sound barrier" . . . "When I really want to awe myself I think about the fact that only one generation ago Mother saw friendly or marauding Indians roaming these same acres" . . . "Those of my age have come into a span of years where living conditions of all kinds have changed so abruptly, where obsolescence sets in so rapidly, that there is little in common between our infancy and our present." Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Holland, Ellen Morland Bowie -- Childhood and youth. Palo Pinto County (Tex.) -- Social life and customs. Weatherford (Tex.) -- Social life and customs. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110745351 https://doi.org/10.7560/732476 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292749351 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292749351/original |
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Frontmatter -- THE FIRST PAGE -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- 1 The Armstrongs -- 2. The Bowies -- 3. Courtship and Marriage -- 4. William Bowie in Texas -- 5. End of the Pastoral Interlude -- 6. White Castle, Louisiana -- 7. The House -- 8. Early Years -- 9. Weatherford -- 10. Family Fictives -- 11. Menage and Menagerie -- 12. Training -- 13. Locusts -- 14. A Young Lady -- 15. This Plastic Age -- THE LAST PAGE |
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Frontmatter -- THE FIRST PAGE -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- 1 The Armstrongs -- 2. The Bowies -- 3. Courtship and Marriage -- 4. William Bowie in Texas -- 5. End of the Pastoral Interlude -- 6. White Castle, Louisiana -- 7. The House -- 8. Early Years -- 9. Weatherford -- 10. Family Fictives -- 11. Menage and Menagerie -- 12. Training -- 13. Locusts -- 14. A Young Lady -- 15. This Plastic Age -- THE LAST PAGE |
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