Bøger af Hattie Tyng Griswold

Waiting On Destiny: A Story For Girls is a novel written by Hattie Tyng Griswold and published in 1889. The book is a coming-of-age story that follows the life of a young girl named Destiny, who is raised in a wealthy and privileged family. Despite her privileged upbringing, Destiny is not content with her life and longs for something more meaningful.As Destiny grows older, she becomes increasingly interested in social issues and begins to question the values and beliefs of her family and society. She becomes involved in various social causes, including the women's suffrage movement and the fight for workers' rights.Throughout the book, Destiny faces numerous challenges and obstacles as she tries to find her place in the world. She must navigate the complexities of love, family, and societal expectations, all while staying true to her own beliefs and values.Waiting On Destiny: A Story For Girls is a thought-provoking and inspiring novel that explores themes of self-discovery, social justice, and the power of individual agency. It is a timeless tale that continues to resonate with readers today.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.

The connection was well known and perfectly understood at Weimar, and appears to have caused no scandal. The love on Goethe's part seemed to have begun even before seeing her; as it is recorded that at Pyrmont he first saw her portrait, and was three nights sleepless in consequence. And when he came to see her, instead of a raw girl such as he had hitherto fancied, he found an elegant woman of the world, whose culture and experience had a singular fascination for him, tired as he was of immaturity and overfondness. She sang well, played well, sketched well, talked well, and showed her appreciation of the poet, not like a gushing girl, but with the delicate tact of a woman of the world. Some years after her first acquaintance with Goethe, Schiller thus writes to his friend Körner: - "She is really a genuinely interesting person, and I quite understand what has attached Goethe to her. Beautiful she can never have been, but her countenance has a soft earnestness and a quite peculiar openness. A healthy understanding, truth, and feeling lie in her nature. She has more than a thousand letters from Goethe, and from Italy he writes her every week. They say the connection is perfectly pure and blameless." Even before he went away from Weimar at all, the letters were incessant, often trivial, and sometimes made up of homely details of eating and drinking, but loving

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