The Chautauqua Girls at Home

MP3 Audio CD. Ruth, Eurie, Marion, and Flossy went home as new Christians, willing to start their religious mission. Their new belief discords with their past lives, that they should conquer, along with the influences of their friends.

The Chautauqua Girls at Home contains these amusing chapters: Treading On New Ground; Flossy "Begins"; Burdens; Col. Baker's Sabbath Evening; New Music; Disturbing Elements; Prayer-Meeting And Tableaux; Dr. Dennis' Study; A White Sunday; The Rainy Evening; The Next Thing; Settling Questions; Looking For Work; An Unarmed Soldier; Marion's Plan; Theory Versus Practice; The Discussion; The Result; Keeping The Promise; How It Was Done; Ruth And Harold; Revival; The Strange Story; Loneliness; The Added Name; Learners; Flossy's Party; and A Parting Glance.

Isabella Macdonald Alden was an American author who wrote under her pen name, Pansy, as her father would call her. She was the daughter of her intellectual parents Isaac Alden and Myra Spafford Macdonald. At an early age, she developed a skill in writing a daily journal. When she was ten years old, she wrote her first book ?Our Old Clock? and was published. She was married to Reverend Gustavus Rossenberg Alden and had a son named Raymond. She pursued in writing, attending to church activities, and teaching at Oneida Seminary in New York.

Alden wrote around 100 books, which are mostly influenced by religious values. Her works are mostly inspired by Biblical passages and translated it into what a good Christian should be. Her books were also based on life experiences, some others by her interest in the Chautauqua movement.

Alden was very close to her sister Marcia, who married the Reverend Charles Livingston, they lived under one house for several years. When Alden?s husband and son died, she lived with her daughter-in-law. Her unfinished autobiography, Memories of Yesterday, was completed by her niece, Grace Livingston Hill.