(Lang:- eng, Pages 212, It is the reproduction of the orig...)
Lang:- eng, Pages 212, It is the reproduction of the original edition published long back in black & white format 1873. Hardcover with sewing binding with glossy laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, professionally processed without changing its contents.We found this book important for the readers who want to know about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Print on Demand.
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss was an American writer of religious and juvenile fiction.
Background
She was born on October 26, 1818 in Portland, Maine, United States, fifth of the eight children of the Rev. Edward and Ann (Shipman) Payson. Her mother was a forceful woman, intellectually vigorous, and punctilious in religious duties, whose character was the model from which the mother in Elizabeth's Stepping Heavenward was drawn.
Her father died when she was nine years old. Louisa, her sister, was the mainstay of the family after her father's death, and greatly influenced Elizabeth during her girlhood.
Education
She received her education at schools in New York (1830) and in Portland (1833 - 34), where her older sister, Louisa, was a teacher.
Career
Her literary work began in 1834 with a contribution to Youth's Companion, to which she later sent many short didactic tales and sketches over the signature "E. " When a young woman she began a career of teaching, opening a school for small children in her mother's house in Portland (1838); two years later she taught in a girl's school in Richmond, Virginia, but her delicate health soon compelled her to return to Portland. After recuperating, she again taught in the Richmond school until its failure in 1843.
After marriage she moved to New Bedford, Massachussets, where her husband began his ministry, and where the first of their children was born. After a visit to her friends, Susan and Anna Warner, who probably encouraged her in her literary aspirations, in 1853 she returned to her writing and, despite growing domestic responsibilities, produced volumes, stories, and articles with surprising regularity. Her editorials, religious dialogues, and sketches were printed chiefly in the Youth's Companion, the New York Observer, and the Advance (Chicago). Many of these were collected in a posthumous volume, Avis Benson (1879).
Her story for young children, Little Susy's Six Birthdays (1853), was the first of a series of "Little Susy" books, which were popular in America and in England, where they were republished. She placed her pen at the disposal of various societies; The Old Brown Pitcher (1868), for instance, was written at the request of the National Temperance Society and was published by its press. Two of her works were translations from the German: Peterchen and Gretchen (1860), and Griselda (1876), the latter a dramatic poem by Friedrich Halm, printed for the Young Women's Christian Association.
In 1858 she went to Europe with her family and, because of her husband's poor health, spent more than two years abroad, chiefly in Switzerland. During the first half of 1860 they lived at Paris where Dr. Prentiss was in charge of the American chapel. They returned in the fall to New York, where he became pastor of the Church of the Covenant. They were both popular and happy in this new and prosperous parish.
In 1868 they built a summer home in Dorset, Vermont, which served as an annual retreat for the family. Here, after a short illness, Elizabeth Prentiss died in her sixtieth year.
Achievements
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss opened a school for small children in Portland. Her most popular book, Stepping Heavenward (1869), sold over one hundred thousand copies in America alone and appeared in more than a dozen editions in Europe. For several decades it was widely used in Sunday-school libraries and was considered ideal as a prize award for school children. She also was the author of a novel, The Flower of the Family, which was her great success too, and was translated into French and German.
