Divers Women

MP3 Audio CD. Divers Women is a set of short literary works, defining the many roles of females who are talented in devotional deeds as well as in household responsibilities.

The Pansy Books - List Of The Series: Four Girls At Chautauqua; Little Fishers & Their Nets; Three People; Echoing And Re-Echoing; Christie's Christmas; Divers Women; Spun From Fact; The Chautauqua Girls At Home; The Pocket Measure; Julia Ried; Wise And Otherwise; The King's Daughter; Links In Rebecca's Life; Interrupted; The Master Hand; An Endless Chain; Ester Ried; Ester Ried Yet Speaking; The Man Of The House; Ruth Erskine's Crosses; Household Puzzles; Mabel Wynn; Or, Those Boys; Modern Prophets; The Randolphs; Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On; From Different Standpoints; and A New Graft On The Family Tree.

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.