Phoebe Deane [Hardcover]

Grace Livingston Hill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 3, 2011

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: Grosset

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Book Description

Could a chance encounter in the woods change the life of the Cinderella-type heroine and finally introduce her to someone who could care about her? --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Amereon Ltd (June 3, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891900446
• ISBN-13: 978-0891900443
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,097,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Grace Livingston Hill's best, November 21, 2002

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Brittney Hinson "garnet17" (Ashford, Alabama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Phoebe Deane (Paperback)

Phoebe Deane is a beautiful orphan who is forced to live with her much older half-brother, who is rather indifferent to say the least, and his jealous wife, who enjoys putting Phoebe to work a little more than she should. Phoebe accepts her life, disappointing as it is, and makes the best of it. But a middle-aged widower who lives nearby with his passle of ill-behaved children is about to turn her life upside down with his near obsession with making her his wife. Naturally, he has her family's support and they go out of their way to throw them together...unknowingly putting Phoebe in grave danger. But all this is made bearable by an unforgetable meeting with a handsome young stranger in the woods who is willing to protect Phoebe where her family will not.
A beautiful love story of faith, intrigue, and endurance that put me very much in mind of Cinderella. Anyone who likes Grace Livingston Hill's books should check this out. It is definately one of her best works.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Story Good- The Publisher should be ashamed, October 14, 2010

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grammie of 4 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Phoebe Deane (Paperback)

I was very excited about reading Phoebe Deane, as I had just recently finished reading the first of Grace Livingston Hill's Miranda Trilogy. The story is a good inspirational read, perhaps a little old fashioned, but then I love old books. The Publisher, however, should be ashamed at the quality of this book. There were at least 10 mispelled words per page, which could be humorous at times but I often womdered if perhaps the book was in written in some kind of secret code that I could not decipher.

4.0 out of 5 stars good stories, poor scanning, July 3, 2011

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annesailorgirl "annesailorgirl" (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Phoebe Deane (Kindle Edition)

This is a sweet story about a mis-treated orphan girl, Phoebe, who lives with her older half-brother and his family and they work her to the bone. An obnoxious local widower named Hiram Green takes it in his head to marry Phoebe when she turns 18, and proceeds to make her life miserable, while her sister-in-law and even her brother try to promote the marriage. Phoebe becomes friends with Miranda Griscom, the outspoken freckled red-headed girl, who readers may remember from a previous GLH story, "Marcia Shuyler." Phoebe flees to the woods one day to cry her heart out, and is discovered by . . . I won't spoil the plot, but everyone gets what is coming to them.

Okay, now to the technical stuff -- this is pitiful editing. For instance, David & Marcia Shuyler's little daughter, Rose, is referred to variously as Eose, Bose, and Hose. You have to take it in context that this is really little Rose. I couldn't help but burst out laughing at the description of "sweet little Hose." Pictures of a green garden hose tormented me for the next page. And that is just a sample. If you can wade through the scanning errors, the story is sweet, and perhaps provides some comic relief. Since I'm a long-term GLH fan, I am glad to have it on my Kindle, but if you're not a die-hard fan, this will be tough reading for you.