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The Wooing of Calvin Parks

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

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1908
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A familiar yellow farmhouse brings Calvin Parks back into the company of Sam and Sim Sill, twin brothers whose shared habits have given way to a stubborn quarrel. Their cousin Mary Sands presides over dinner while the brothers send their disagreements through her rather than speak directly to each other. In this humorous novel of Maine life, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards makes ordinary meals, farm business and awkward conversation the setting for a courtship story.

Calvin's concern for his old friends becomes tangled with the possibility of marriage. A conversation about finding wives for the twins turns painfully confusing when Mary asks whether he wants her to marry one of them. Regional speech and domestic details give these exchanges their particular character, while the comedy rests on how easily kindness and good intentions can be misunderstood.

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Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850-1943) was an American writer who produced more than ninety books, most of them for young readers. The daughter of Julia Ward Howe and the reformer Samuel Gridley Howe, she grew up in Boston and settled in Gardiner, Maine, where she wrote steadily for six decades.

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First published
1908
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
70
Language
English
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