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This is the story of a girl who looked on marriage as a release -- an insurance against boredom and loneliness. Hounded by a stern, old-fashioned father, chafing at the monotony of life around Treehaven, the small California ranch where she lived, Cynthia Trezavant longed to escape and have a life of her own. Guy Waring, an artist staying near by, was the man she loved, and when he suggested that they run away together, she was happy to agree. Then it happened -- the terrible thing that made it impossible for them to be married. Heartsick and desperate, Cynthia turned to Jim Fowler, a guide from the mountains. She could not love him as she had Guy, but he was strong and handsome, and she thought that she could make him a good wife. It was not long before she discovered that marriage was not always the free, happy relationship she had fancied, and she began to think that perhaps she was still in love with Guy. Things drifted from bad to worse until a near tragedy revealed her husband's true devotion to her and showed her where her heart really belonged. Told in lively, understanding fashion, this is one of Kathleen Norris's most entertaining novels of modern American life.
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A novel by Kathleen Thompson Norris, who was an American novelist, and wife of fellow writer, Charles Norris whom she wed in 1909. She was educated in a special course in the University of California and wrote many popular romance novels that some considered sentimental and honest in their prose. Norris was the highest-paid female writer of her time, and many of her novels are held in high regard today. Many of her novels were set in California, particularly the San Francisco area. They feature detailed descriptions of the upperclass lifestyle. Her works include Mother (1911), The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne (1912), Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby (1913), The Treasure (1914), Saturday's Child (1914), The Heart of Rachael (1916), Martie the Unconquered (1917), Josselyn's Wife (1918), Harriet and the Piper (1920), The Beloved Woman (1921), Beauty's Daughter (1935), adapted for the 1935 motion picture Navy Wife, Over at the Crowleys (1941), and The Maiden Voyage (1942).
Kathleen Thompson Norris was an American novelist. She was called the "grandmother of the American sentimental novel. "
Background
Kathleen Thompson Norris was born on July 16, 1880 in San Francisco, California, United States. She was the daughter of James Alden Thompson, a bank manager, and Josephine E. Moroney. Her childhood home was at Mill Valley near Muir Woods, across the Golden Gate from San Francisco. She was a sickly child who for a time was sent to a slaughterhouse for a daily glass of warm blood.
Education
Thompson alternated between attending a country school and being taught at home and also briefly stayed at a Dominican convent school in San Rafael. Her parents took an apartment in San Francisco to better their children's educational opportunities, but Thompson, who was the oldest of three daughters and the second of six children, stayed home to help her mother care for the younger ones, whom she often entertained with stories. Her main education came from reading Dickens and other authors in the library of her father, who had, she later wrote, a "sharp eye for the misuse of words. "
In 1903 she spent a few exhilarating months at the University of California at Berkeley, where, she recalled, her "heart leaped with sheer joy" when her composition professor praised one paper after another.
Career
When Thompson was nineteen, her parents died within a month of each other, leaving her and her siblings to support themselves and their father's unmarried sister, who lived with them. During these difficult years, Thompson worked primarily in a hardware store and in a library.
Over the next few years, she wrote society columns for three San Francisco newspapers, published a bit of fiction.
Kathleen Norris credited New York with making her a writer and her husband with making her a success. Impressed by the established novelists and short-story writers she met through her husband, Norris determined to be one of them. She had no trouble publishing three stories in the New York Telegram, but her husband, who was her literary agent, sent another story, "The Tide-Marsh, " to twenty-six publishers before it was printed in the Atlantic Monthly, which earlier had rejected it.
In her autobiography Family Gathering (1959), Norris wrote that her novels often detail "the fearful power of money upon human lives. " Before typing a synopsis of a new story and discussing it with her husband, Norris worked out its plots and scenes while playing solitaire. She then sat down at her typewriter and words came, according to her husband, "as water flowing from a pitcher. " She seldom changed more than a word or two on each page, and once a story was in progress she could write on a makeshift table in a boardinghouse parlor or in her own milieu, surrounded by her children and their numerous cousins. Norris wrote of the people and things that she knew best. Her writing was characterized by honesty, directness, and clear-cut issues.
Her first big money-maker was Mother (1911), a warm, fairy-tale-like story based on her own family and friends. It was followed by scores of books blending sentiment and romance, with sharply drawn and alluring characters. She portrayed life so carefully and rendered it so truthfully that many of her characters assumed, in the words of one reviewer, "proportions of flesh and blood. " She was especially good at telling Irish anecdotes and used to advantage the gross overstatements and the mild understatements of second-generation Irish-Americans.
Always able to envelop her narrative in a family atmosphere, Norris, as a critic declared, rendered domestic interiors that matched those of Dutch artists. In 1922, Norris turned from her usual formula to write Certain People of Importance, a sprawling family chronicle that sparkled with period detail and spanned more than a century. Most critics, who had often called her earlier books slight, conventional, and sentimental, applauded. But Norris' usual readers were disappointed, and she went back to writing the romantic novels they appreciated. Because she always got her heroines out of their scrapes, readers sought her help in solving real-life problems. She answered many of their queries in Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women (1931), which a reviewer pronounced "likely to put sense into the head of the average American girl. " So popular was Norris' writing that when a magazine ran one of her stories or articles, the issue sold 100, 000 additional copies. One month her work appeared in five magazines simultaneously. For years, she would begin serializing a novel in the Woman's Home Companion in April, another in Collier's in July, and a third in the American Magazine in October.
In 1945, Norris wrote scripts for a radio soap opera called "Bright Horizon. " For more than twenty-five years she also worked for the Bell Newspaper Syndicate, covering the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago and writing articles of interest to women and often answering their queries. She covered the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the accused kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby, for the North American Newspaper Alliance and the New York Times.
At their 200-acre summer ranch near Saratoga, California, the Norrises and their guests put on amateur plays and fostered endless croquet games, continued into the night under locomotive lights. They had camping facilities for their many nieces and nephews and twelve guest cabins for their numerous friends, who included Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. , Charles A. Lindbergh, Noel Coward, and Harpo Marx. The Norrises traveled a great deal but were most at home in San Francisco and New York. In later years, their main home was their large Spanish-style house in Palo Alto. Despite crippling arthritis, Norris continued her writing into her eighties.
Norris was a feminist, a pacifist, and a prohibitionist, and she campaigned in small California towns and in Madison Square Garden for her causes, which included the America First Committee, abolition of the death penalty, and a nuclear-weapons test ban. Her novels give hints of her pacifism and feminism, but they avoid controversy.
Personality
Norris was described as "a gracious hostess, tall, striking, carefully tailored--a woman with rare charm and a racy Irish love of the ridiculous. "
Connections
Norris married Charles Gilman Norrison on April 30, 1909; they had three children. The couple settled in New York, where Charles Norris had become an editor for the American Magazine. Like his brother Frank, Charles Norris became a novelist dealing with controversial social problems. She had a son (twin daughters died in infancy) and adopted a second son, and after her sister Teresa, who had married William Rose Benét, died during the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic, Norris added two nieces and a nephew to her household.