tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34422913104141176972024-02-06T22:01:31.387-08:00The Flying StarsNancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-31330478248240004802019-04-30T08:24:00.001-07:002019-04-30T08:24:45.508-07:00Education in a Miseducated World: Mark your Calendars - Saturday June 22ndHow I so wish I was free to go this weekend!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.stlcec.com/2019/04/mark-your-calendars-saturday-june-22nd.html?spref=bl">Education in a Miseducated World: Mark your Calendars - Saturday June 22nd</a>: The first ever St Louis Chesterton Education Conference is happening soon! When: Saturday, June 22nd, 2019, 8:45 - 4 PM Where: St Ansel...Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-3519941440899281102018-11-11T08:12:00.002-08:002018-11-11T08:12:57.550-08:00Book ListI recently traveled to Sydney, Australia, and gave a few talks there on Frances Chesterton, my Father Brown books, and books to read aloud or that children might like. I drew this list from books our children and I liked as they grew up, plus some of the teens from the audience gave me some new suggestions. I had this as a handout, and thought others might be interested. This list is not in any kind of order, but maybe you'll find a new interesting book for your family to enjoy.<br />
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Nancy Brown’s Recommended Books and Book Lists<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jim Trelease <i>The Read Aloud Handbook</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Honey for a Child’s Heart </i>by Gladys Hunt<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>A Landscape With Dragons: The Battle for Your Child’s Mind </i>by Michael O’Brien <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Classics to Read Aloud to your Children</i>by William Russell<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Read Aloud Family </i>by Sarah Mackenzie<o:p></o:p></div>
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JRRTolkein <i>The Hobbit </i>and LOTR series<o:p></o:p></div>
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C.S. Lewis Narnia series<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tomie de Paola<o:p></o:p></div>
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Aesops Fables<o:p></o:p></div>
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E. Nesbit <i>Railway Children</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Louisa May Alcott <i>Little Women</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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L.M. Montgomery <i>Anne of Green Gables<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>& Emily of New Moon<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Charles Dickens <i>A Christmas Carol</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Michael Ende <i>The Neverending Story</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Corduroy</i>by Don Freeman<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Swiss Family Robinson</i>by Johann David Wyss<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lewis Carol <i>Alice in Wonderland</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Jack London <i>Call of the Wild</i>and <i>White Fang</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Robert Louis Stevenson <i>Treasure Island</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Rudyard Kipling <i>Jungle Book</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Frances Hodgson Burnett <i>The Secret Garden</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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E.B. White <i>Charlotte’s Web</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Lynne Reid Banks <i>The Indian in the Cupboard</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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P.L. Travers <i>Mary Poppins</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anna Sewell <i>Black Beauty</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Beverly Cleary <i>The Mouse and the Motorcycle</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Mary Norton <i>The Borrowers</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Beatrix Potter <i>Peter Rabbit</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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A.A. Milne <i>Winnie the Pooh</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Herge <i>TinTin</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Jan Brett <i>The Mitten</i>etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Norton Juster <i>The Phantom Tollbooth</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Penderwicks series<o:p></o:p></div>
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Beverly Cleary <i>Ramona Quimby</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Laura Ingalls Wilder <i>Little House on the Prairie</i>series<o:p></o:p></div>
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E.B. White <i>Stuart Little</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Esther Hoskins Forbes <i>Johnny Tremain</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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E.L. Konigsburg <i>From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Ludwig Bemelmans <i>Madeline</i>etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Crockett Johnson <i>Harold and the Purple Crayon</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Classic Starts: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Classic Starts: The Three Musketeers etc.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The Father Brown Reader: Stories from Chesterton<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Betty MacDonald <i>Mrs. Piggle Wiggle</i>etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Andrew Clements <i>Frindle</i>etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Carolyn Keene Nancy Drew<o:p></o:p></div>
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Franklin W. Dixon Hardy Boys<o:p></o:p></div>
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Donald Sobol Encyclopedia Brown<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gary Paulsen <i>Hatchet</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Patricia Mac Lachlan <i>Sarah, Plain and Tall</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Marguerite Henry <i>Misty of Chincoteague</i>etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kate DiCamillo <i>Because of Winn Dixie</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Charles and Mary Lamb <i>Tales From Shakespeare</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Mary Fabyan Windeatt Saint books (Rose of Lima, Martin de Porres, etc.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Henriette Eugénie Delamare <i>The Little Apostle on Crutches</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Johanna Spyri <i>Heidi<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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John Dickson Carr<o:p></o:p></div>
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William McCleery <i>Wolf Story</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Margaret Stanger <i>That Quail, Robert</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Nate the Great</i>by Marjorie Sharmat<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Meg Mackintosh</i>by Lucinda Landon<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Cam Jansen</i>by David A. Adler<o:p></o:p></div>
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A to Z mysteries by Ron Roy<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Princess and the Goblin</i>, by George MacDonald<o:p></o:p></div>
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Emily Rodda<o:p></o:p></div>
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M.L. Forman Adventurers Wanted Series<o:p></o:p></div>
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Elyne Mitchell Silver Brumby series<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Gone Away Lake</i>by Elizabeth Enright<o:p></o:p></div>
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Megan Turner, Queen’s Thief series<o:p></o:p></div>
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Robin McKinley <i>The Blue Sword<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Crown Duel </i>by Sherwood Smith<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Red Wall</i>by Brian Jacques<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>And the book that made me a writer:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Louise FitzHugh <i>Harriet the Spy</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Poetry to Read<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Night Before Christmas<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lepanto<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jack Prelutsky Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young<o:p></o:p></div>
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James Berry Classic Poems to Read Aloud<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Seuss<o:p></o:p></div>
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Favorite Poems of Childhood Dover Children’s Thrift Classics<o:p></o:p></div>
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During a search of British Newspapers, Dale Ahlquist came across this and sent it to me. I discovered while working on the biography of Frances Chesterton that she had been asked to help found a club called The Lyceum for women who were writers or authors and who had attended college. Here is the picture that goes with that story! Frances has the fur collar (a frequent item in her dress) and is standing behind, second from the left, dark hat. The year is 1904. It was founded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Smedley" target="_blank">Constance Smedley</a>, sitting in front of Frances. (Click on the photo to enlarge and see it better.)Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-46464416311962451602017-01-23T08:06:00.000-08:002017-01-23T08:06:02.649-08:00Milwaukee Chesterton Academy GalaI was honored and privileged to be able to speak at the gala for the Milwaukee Chesterton Society last weekend.<br />
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In this talk, I concentrate on Frances Chesterton's literary ancestry, and how it helped propel G.K. Chesterton into stardom. We also discuss Frances' sister-in-law Ada Jones, as well as a number of famous literary figures of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-27882514157319428172016-11-30T14:41:00.003-08:002016-11-30T14:41:28.268-08:00Milwaukee: Come to the Grand Gala!Milwaukee--you are in for a treat!<br />
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Yes, it's me. I'll be at my wittiest, my funniest, and my best for the second annual Chesterton Academy Gala! See the <a href="http://www.chestertonacademymilwaukee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gala-2017-invite-final.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a> here.<br />
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Jokes, laughter, tears, fun; it's going to be a night of music and joy as we celebrate the Chesterton Academy of Milwaukee, and their wonderful classical education high school based on the ideas of <a href="http://chesterton.org/" target="_blank">G.K. Chesterton</a>. Only it's second year, this school is growing fast and strong. You can find out much more about the school <a href="http://www.chestertonacademymilwaukee.org/2017-gala-invite/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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I'm super excited, and I hope if you live in the area, you'll make a <a href="http://www.chestertonacademymilwaukee.org/2016-gala-registration/" target="_blank">reservation</a> today!Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-36175429060155045452016-08-03T07:01:00.000-07:002016-08-03T07:01:03.926-07:00A Friend goes to EWTNBack in grade school, I had many friends. One of my friends was a girl named Margaret. I remember her well as a kid who was always smiling and laughing.<br />
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Margaret and I used to play on the playground, with all the other girls, horsing around as much as you could in a school uniform. We went to St. Philip Neri in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (sadly, now <a href="http://www.archmil.org/offices/archives/Closed-Merged-Parishes.htm" target="_blank">permanently closed</a>), and we were both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenstatt_Movement" target="_blank">Schoenstatt</a> girls. In fact, St Philip was a Schoenstatt parish, and we were fortunate to have a beautiful chapel on the property to which we could duck in from time to time. The chapel cool on a hot day, and silent.<br />
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One day during recess in fifth grade, Margaret and I were goofing around and we were running together except that Margaret was running forward and I was running backwards. I tripped over something and fell back hard on my head (this may explain a lot about me :-)). I ended up with a trip to the emergency room and a big fat scar on the back of my head, as a constant reminder of that day.<br />
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Many years have passed, and imagine my surprise when I found out that popular writer and award winning author <a href="http://margefenelon.com/" target="_blank">Marge Fenelon</a> is that same girl. I was pleased to see she appeared on Women of Grace, and I think you will really enjoy her <a href="http://www.womenofgrace.com/en-us/media/tv/details.aspx?id=1358" target="_blank">interview</a>.<br />
<br />Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-55313026560561293812016-07-19T16:17:00.000-07:002016-07-20T06:29:08.441-07:00Is Harry Potter Still Relevant?Sometimes, I do ask myself this question. Abe Books asked it, too, and answered it <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/books/harry-potter/still-relevant-today.shtml?cm_sp=home-_-hero_1-_-harrypotterrelevant" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
You can find my book about Harry Potter in eBook format <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Harry-Potter-Catholic-Family-ebook/dp/B00G3ON7Z2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468970036&sr=8-1&keywords=mystery+of+harry+potter+catholic#nav-subnav" target="_blank">here</a>. My recent discussion of all things Harry with Fountains of Carrots is <a href="http://fountainsofcarrots.com/foc-033-the-mysteries-and-greatness-of-harry-potter-with-nancy-c-brown-2/" target="_blank">here</a>. Thanks!<br />
<br />Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-4797683928508195912016-05-12T16:02:00.001-07:002016-05-12T16:02:04.501-07:00Cuppa Catholic (Grande style!): Book Review: The Chestertons and the Golden KeyGreat review--thanks, Susan! <a href="http://cuppacatholic.blogspot.com/2016/05/book-review-chestertons-and-golden-key.html">Cuppa Catholic (Grande style!): Book Review: The Chestertons and the Golden Key</a>Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-35970862377533649072016-04-15T07:01:00.003-07:002016-04-15T07:01:22.305-07:00Frances Chesterton: G.K. Chesterton's remarkable wife<a href="https://wadecenterblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/frances-chesterton/" target="_blank">Find out more about Frances Chesterton</a> in my guest blog post for the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, in Wheaton, IL.Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-49179652348069950592016-04-14T18:42:00.002-07:002016-04-14T18:42:38.815-07:00New Book about Gilbert and Frances Chesterton and their young friends<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7TErJMTst4QVu0GIQidNIU9OHlnZIqEPgfnE_c3yI2wlB4wgPeogg898p4GMoBgoQm0xO_F0VyGlQn352AlKUqmoiMht3EgDEnv_mc7DXog2eqeGk736AlqFnKtBbl8RrFN1wdDHNRE_X/s1600/Front+Cover+Golden+Key.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7TErJMTst4QVu0GIQidNIU9OHlnZIqEPgfnE_c3yI2wlB4wgPeogg898p4GMoBgoQm0xO_F0VyGlQn352AlKUqmoiMht3EgDEnv_mc7DXog2eqeGk736AlqFnKtBbl8RrFN1wdDHNRE_X/s320/Front+Cover+Golden+Key.jpg" width="222" /></a>The Chestertons go on vacation to the seaside, and run into a family of girls, whom they befriend. What happens next? Gilbert and his swordstick, a missing key, a dog that tends to bury everything, and a puppet play all happen over the course of the next few days. Read all about it in my newest book, <a href="http://www.chesterton.org/shop/the-chestertons-and-the-golden-key/" target="_blank">The Chestertons and the Golden Key</a>. If you'd like a review copy, please let me know in the comments.Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-75011189302453234392015-12-10T16:28:00.001-08:002015-12-10T16:29:43.857-08:00A Visit to the Wade CenterA few days ago I visited the <a href="http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter" target="_blank">Wade Center</a> at Wheaton College, a place I've grown to love. The staff are all wonderful, friendly, and helpful. I was there doing some work for the <a href="http://www.chesterton.org/about-us/" target="_blank">Chesterton Digital Library</a> (CDL) and I wanted to see if my books were on the shelves--they both were. (<i><a href="http://www.chesterton.org/shop/how-far-is-it-to-bethlehem/" target="_blank">How Far Is It To Bethlehem</a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.chesterton.org/shop/frances-chesterton/" target="_blank">The Woman Who Was Chesterton</a></i>--they were actually not sitting next to each other, something the librarians thought they would fix.)<br />
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The librarian pictured is Laura Schmidt, who has been with me through all my writing. And I really enjoyed the fact that my book is sitting right next to Agatha Christie :-)<br />
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<br />Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-36754020948827575692015-11-27T05:58:00.000-08:002015-11-27T05:58:35.819-08:00Local Chesterton Society in Twin Cities reads Woman Who Was ChestertonSuch a great photo, I love the combination of print copies and Kindle editions!<br />
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Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-67381602641214481642015-11-17T06:00:00.000-08:002015-11-17T06:00:00.921-08:00Frances Chesterton book reviewed by Daily Graces<a href="https://kktaliaferro.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/book-review-the-woman-who-was-chesterton/" target="_blank">Daily Graces</a> wrote a very nice review of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Who-Was-Chesterton/dp/1505104785/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" target="_blank">The Woman Who Was Chesterton</a>. Thanks, Kate!<br />
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Nancy: Years ago when I first became interested in G.K.
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that point, but he sounded a lot like <a href="http://www.michaelbrown.com/" target="_blank">my husband</a>, whom I consider an artistic
genius. As a woman and a wife, I immediately was curious about Gilbert’s wife.
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Nancy: Nothing of what I wanted to know. Oh there were
little snippets of information, like that she came from a London family. That
her father had died when she was a young girl. That her father was a diamond
merchant. I found out a few things from Gilbert’s point of view, like that he
fell in love with her the first time he saw her, that he wrote her love poetry,
that he depended on her to keep him on task and on schedule.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: What kind of information did you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">want</i> to know about Frances?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: I wanted to know who was she that Gilbert could fall
in love with her. He was an extraordinary man; she had to be an extraordinary
woman. But there was nothing in the biography that indicated her
extraordinariness. I wanted to know how they came to love each other, how they
worked out their individual lives as a married couple, if Frances had a career
before she married him, and if she carried that on afterwards. I wanted to know
what skills she brought to the marriage, and how she was able to cope with
Gilbert’s absentmindedness without going crazy. I wanted to know how she had
enough patience to keep tying his tie every day. I could see that their day-to-day
life was very similar to my own.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: What do you mean?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: Gilbert basically worked from home. He did go into an
office once a week, but the rest of the days he woke up, had breakfast, and
then began dictating articles, books, and so on—at home. The day-to-day life of
Gilbert and Frances was together. Constantly. They were together a lot. And
some couples don’t do well being together that much. Often a wife is dependent
on having her own domain during the day while the husband goes off to work.
Like Gilbert’s essay on the “Emancipation of Domesticity” —which I love—a wife
is often the queen of her domain during the day. She can cook what she likes,
clean when she wants, and teach her children everything. But it’s a little
different for the queen if the king is at home all day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: And your life is like that? Like Gilbert described?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: At first, my life was like that—I was queen of my
domain. My husband went off to work every day like most husbands. We had
decided to homeschool our children, so I was at home raising and educating
them. My husband and I would occasionally show his art at art shows on the
weekends, but then he would rush off to work again on Monday morning. I was the
queen of my world—until my husband was laid off of work. Instead of finding
another wage slave job, we decided we would do the Chestertonian thing and live
a distributist life by running our own small business and selling his art full
time. That’s when our lives began to resemble Gilbert and Frances’ very much.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: But the distributist life is ideal, everyone wants that
kind of life!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: Of course, and it is a wonderful life. But every spouse
has quirks, and perhaps artistic types have a few more quirks than your average.
Not that I don’t have any. I’m sure I do. Minor ones, of course. Somehow I just
felt that if Frances and I could sit down to tea, there would be a mutual
meeting of the minds over the challenges of our husbands. <o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: What would you and Frances say those challenges are?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: First, how to be with each other every hour of every
day. And not go crazy. Maybe how to find space for individual projects. I think
of how Frances found space eventually, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Far-Bethlehem-Frances-Chesterton/dp/1469907402/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447468865&sr=8-1&keywords=how+far+is+it+to+bethlehem" target="_blank">writing poems and plays</a>, teaching
Sunday school, and helping the kids put on plays. She also ran a poetry circle,
gave talks, and did a lot of gardening. These were all ways in which she
maintained her sense of individual identity. She also had a genius for
friendship.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Secondly, I think one needs a lot of patience. I think
Frances cultivated the virtue of patience to a degree nearing perfection. She
took dictation from Gilbert. I can see her sitting with pen and paper, dipping
the pen in the ink, the pen poised just above the paper, just waiting for
Gilbert to let her know what the next sentence was going to be. And then she
had to wait for him to finish his essays so she could send them off to the
papers. She had to wait for him to dress, and eat, and smoke. I think she spent
a lot of her life waiting for him. Patiently. I want that kind of patience. I
want Frances to teach me that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: Did you look at Frances’ family tree at all? Were there
any surprises? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: Yes, I did look, and she had a lot of famous
relatives. She was directly connected with famous poets, playwrights and
authors. Her family was much more connected to the literary world than
Gilbert’s. Gilbert came from a family of house agents and surveyors. Frances
was tied to people whom we no longer know, but at the time were quite famous.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Laman_Blanchard" target="_blank">Samuel Laman Blanchard</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_William_Jerrold" target="_blank">Douglas Jerrold</a>, <a href="https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/heatonm.htm" target="_blank">Mary Margaret Heaton</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cosmo_Monkhouse" target="_blank">Cosmo Monkhouse</a>, for example. Blanchard and Jerrold were intimate friends with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray" target="_blank">William Makepeace Thakeray</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>. In fact, Dickens was a pallbearer at
Blanchard’s funeral. Frances’s mother’s name was Blanche, named in remembrance
of this uncle, Laman Blanchard, who was a famous journalist in his day. Douglas
Jerrold was even more famous, because he was a journalist, a drama critic, a
playwright, and actor. His most famous play was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/blackeyedsusanor00jerr" target="_blank">Black-Eyed Susan</a></i>. Jerrold sailed aboard a ship for a year and a
half under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Austen" target="_blank">Captain Charles Austen</a>—<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen" target="_blank">Jane Austen</a>’s brother. He wrote plays; he
wrote articles for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Punch</i>, and he
coined the phrase ‘Crystal Palace’ for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace" target="_blank">beautiful crystal building Paxton</a> was
building for the <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/g/great-exhibition/" target="_blank">Great Exhibition of 1851</a>. He was said to be the funniest man
in London at the time he wrote his comic plays.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: What about this diamond business of Frances’s father’s?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: That was very interesting to investigate. Frances’s
father, George Blogg, was indeed a diamond merchant, as were his father,
grandfather and great-grandfathers before him. They were also all makers of
find gold chains, and so considered artisans. Frances’s maternal grandfather and
great grandfather were silk printers, what we would now call silk screening. They
created beautiful silk products, including souvenir type scarves and kerchiefs.
In addition, they were glaziers, so they were making things out of glass, and
possibly doing stained glass work. Her grandfather’s business was so big he
employed ninety people. So on both Frances’ mother’s and her father’s sides of
the family, there were fine craft artisans. In fact, that’s possibly how her
parents met.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: Did you find out anything shocking about Frances?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: Sort of. I discovered within her medical files
something that explained a lot about her health, which always seemed fragile.
During her teen growth spurt, one of her legs grew longer than the other. So
from then on, she walked with a limp, and was always fighting this off balance
situation. It wasn’t till she was in her fifties that a doctor recommended
getting a lift in the shoe of the shorter leg. Meanwhile, her spine, hips,
pelvis—everything was out of alignment because of the leg. But don’t tell
anyone that, because I’m saving that piece of information for the book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: That is interesting, and I’ll keep it mum. Did you find
out anything about Frances’s past? Did she have any boyfriends before Gilbert
came along, for example?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: I have to admit that I actually don’t know the answer
to the question about former boyfriends. You can see from her picture that
Frances was a beauty. I mean she was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i>
pretty. However, I don’t know if, because of her limp, was she less attractive
to boys? I just don’t know. But surprisingly, Frances and her family found a
way to mix and mingle with all the eligible young men in the neighborhood
anyway.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: What was that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: They started a debate club. I’m sure this was one of
the things that Frances and Gilbert talked about when they first met. But in
the early 1890s—before she ever met Gilbert—Frances and her Bedford Park
friends formed a debate club called the “I.D.K. Debating Society.” They met in
each other’s homes, chose a topic, and debated for the evening. Once a year,
they held a dance for all members and their friends. One year, the dance was in
the Blogg home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: What did “I.D.K.” stand for?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: I don’t know.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: Oh, ok. Was this debate club where Frances and Gilbert
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Nancy: Surprisingly, no! They did meet at the Blogg home, at
8 Bath Road in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Park,_London" target="_blank">Bedford Park</a>, but it was not during an IDK meeting. However,
after they met, Gilbert did start attending the IDK meetings. In fact, he was a
regular. He lost a debate there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: Now how do you actually know that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: I discovered the notebook in a library special
collection where Frances and her sister Ethel took the minutes of their monthly
meetings. They kept track of who attended, who the proposer was, who the opposer
was, who was the chairman of the meeting. They collected a small amount for
dues, and kept track of that, as well. Many of the famous artists and painters
who lived in the area at that time participated in the debate club at the Blogg
home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: That’s cool! What was the debate Chesterton lost?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: That a man’s character is his fate. The proposer
argued that character was a sense of ethical qualities that define a man. Fate
is destiny. A man is given a certain character in which he starts out life, and
so he makes his own fate. Chesterton strongly opposed this argument, saying the
notion was false, disastrous and immoral; that it severed us from all that
makes ethical life valuable. He reminded the debating society that there were
many things which contribute to man’s fate besides his character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These included the characters of other
people, such as our parents, our teachers, our friends—the great minds of our
day; and there are circumstances over which we have no control. If we believed
that we stood in a position of independence from all other people—Chesterton
said this is characteristic of the mindset of the day—this leads man to think
he is his own God Almighty. This leads to an unhappy frame of mind edged with
egoism. Despite Chesterton’s strong argument, he lost the vote. The I.D.K.
Society apparently believed a man’s character <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i> his fate. But I should remind everyone that Chesterton was
possibly the youngest member of the debating society, at this time he was just
twenty-two years old. It’s probable he didn’t have his power of persuasive
speech developed to its greatness yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: So why should people get <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Woman-Who-Was-Chesterton/dp/1505104785/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?ie=UTF8&ref=olp_product_details" target="_blank">The Woman Who Was Chesterton</a></i>?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy: I think the most important reason is because Frances
was the most important person in Gilbert’s life. She was the most important
relationship he had, and their marriage was the most important thing in both
their lives. To find out more about Frances means we find out more about
Gilbert as a person. Yes, he was a great writer and gave us great books, but to
know Gilbert as a person is perhaps even more interesting than just reading his
books. And once you know him as a person, his books become more enjoyable. And
to know him better, we need to get to know his wife. I hope everyone will <a href="http://www.chesterton.org/wwwc/" target="_blank">enjoy getting to know Frances better</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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FS: Thank you, Nancy!<o:p></o:p></div>
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While contemplating the Christmas Holidays, I thought I’d
like to peek in at <a href="http://www.chesterton.org/shop/top-meadow-print/" target="_blank">Top Meadow</a>, the home of our friends Gilbert and Frances
Chesterton out in Beaconsfield, and see what the holiday couple might be doing
for Christmas this year. Why don’t you come along?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I only thought of taking this trip because of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens" target="_blank">Dickens</a>. Our
friend Chesterton fell in love with Charles Dickens’ work at a very young age,
and contributed greatly to a revival of Dickens. Because of the renewed
interest in Dickens, there was a renewed interest in Dickens’ work <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46" target="_blank">A Christmas Carol</a></i>. Originally published
in 1843, extremely popular during its day, after Dickens died in 1870, the work
languished. In 1906, Chesterton himself revived an interest in Dickens by
writing <a href="http://www.chesterton.org/?s=dickens" target="_blank">quite a lot</a> about the author.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, in reference to Dickens, it could be said that the
Chestertons know how to “keep” Christmas. Their holidays are always filled with
friends, family, plays, music, conversation, food, spirits, and gifts. Let’s
take a peek in the door. No, let’s do more than peek as long as we’ve made the
train journey; let’s knock and hope the couple is at home. They are.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Entering the front door at Top Meadow, you and I, the guests
of Gilbert and Frances Chesterton, are warmly greeted, our coats and hats taken
and hung up, and hot cider or another warm beverage pressed into our hands. We’ve
wiped our shoes, and come in closer to the hearth, and we’re invited to sit by
the crackling fire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gilbert and Frances make us feel immediately at home, and we
notice Christmas decorations everywhere. Frances collects nativity scenes from
around the world, and there is a different one set up in each room of the
house. There are presents under the tree, and a few of them are for us—how did
they know we were coming?! A plate of beautifully decorated cookies is sitting
on the table in front of us; Frances insists we have some, and we do—they are
delicious. After warming up, gifts are exchanged, and Gilbert suggests we all
sing carols, and so we sing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then a knock is heard at the door, and the neighborhood
children come in, and Frances shoos them into the studio where they are
preparing costumes, props, and rehearsing last minute. They will put on a play
for all of the adults this evening. Winkle the dog is barking, hoping you’ll
toss him a little bit of that cookie you’re eating. Two cats are purring at
your feet, begging to have their ears scratched.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While we’re all waiting for the children to get the play
ready, Gilbert lights a cigarillo, makes a large sign of the cross in the air
with the smoke, and offers you one if you’d like. He pours a bit of burgundy
for anyone who wants it, and then asks you to pass the cookie plate back his
way. He pulls out a well worn copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Christmas Carol </i>from his coat pocket, and asks if you’d like him to read
from it. Everyone wants to hear Gilbert read.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He reads with expression, in between drags of the
cigarillo, and one particular time, proves that he does indeed know how to
blow smoke rings. As he reads, he is reminded—during that part where the
gentlemen come in and ask Ebenezer to contribute to their campaign for the
poor—that he and Frances are collecting for the local nursing home this
Christmas—St. Joseph’s Convalescent Home—and Gilbert has a tin in which you can
place your donation. You do so, quite willingly, because it is Gilbert asking.
After this pause, he continues to read. His voice turns quite rough when he
becomes Ebenezer Scrooge, and quite high and quiet when he becomes Tiny Tim.
But before he even gets to the first ghost, Frances opens the door and
announces that the children are ready.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We all enter the studio, and the children put on a play that
Frances Chesterton wrote for tonight’s visit, called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Far-Bethlehem-Frances-Chesterton/dp/1469907402/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1447432862&sr=1-1" target="_blank">The Christmas Gift</a></i>. The costumes are wonderful, the children do a
fine job with memorization, and they sing Christmas carols in between quite a
few of the scene changes, asking the audience to join along. Holly is strung
all along the walls, and a small bunch of mistletoe is hanging from a strategic
place in the center of a doorframe you can’t help passing under. You are kissed.
Flowering plants line the table near the window, and the nativity scene in this
room came from Spain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When the children finish, Frances brings out more cookies,
cakes, biscuits, pies and best of all, chocolates; there is more cider and some
hot buttered rum as well. A few of the children have brought small instruments,
and they play more carols, and everyone sings. Frances would like to return to
the hearth, and so we all go back to the main room, where a little fairy must
have put a few more logs on the fire while we were away. One of the children
asks Frances to read her poem <a href="http://www.chesterton.org/frances-chesterton/" target="_blank">How Far IsIt To Bethlehem,</a> and she says she knows it well by heart, and recites it
for us, and by the end all the women are wiping tears. We all clap, and Frances
is embarrassed, and says, “Gilbert, do something!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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We remind Gilbert to finish reading the Dickens’ story, and
he does, with great wit and charm, keeping us all entertained and laughing
alternatively with crying. The story ends with a flourish, and God bless us, everyone,
we have, indeed, kept Christmas at Top Meadow this year. What a nice visit
we’ve had with the Chestertons. Let’s all do this again next year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-32421891660279957592015-10-18T08:43:00.000-07:002015-10-18T08:43:18.598-07:00The Woman Who Was ChestertonAaaaaand......it's finally here! After years of research and years of writing and years of editing (literally) I can <a href="http://www.chesterton.org/shop/frances-chesterton/" target="_blank">finally</a> <a href="https://www.tanbooks.com/index.php/woman-who-was-chesterton.html" target="_blank">hold</a> <a href="http://amzn.com/1505104785" target="_blank">my book</a>!!!!<br />
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Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-34151474452933147602015-10-18T08:35:00.000-07:002015-10-18T08:35:23.563-07:00Word by Word<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Word-Slowing-Down-Hail-Mary/dp/1594716404/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1445181620&sr=8-2&keywords=word+by+word" target="_blank">Word by Word</a> is out, and I'm a co-author. Right now, it's a best-selling book on Amazon!<br />
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Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442291310414117697.post-16638030883701583342015-09-23T16:06:00.004-07:002015-09-23T16:06:50.050-07:00The President, the Pope, a Cardinal, and Nancy Carpentier Brown?<a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/09/10/morning-catholic-must-reads-100915/" target="_blank">All in one breath.</a> Pretty cool.Nancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com2