Background
Allee, Marjorie Hill was born on June 2, 1890 in Carthage, Indiana, United States. Daughter of William B. and Anna Mary (Elliott) Hill.
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Judith Lankester, 15 years old, and raised in the luxury of her grandmother s Virginia plantation, has made the arduous journey with her widowed mother and her seven sisters to the home of her grandparents in Indiana. Though her mother, Charity, had married away from the Quaker lifestyle, she had always maintained her faith and convictions. After her husband s death, she freed his slaves, settled them on their own land and used the last of the family s resources to travel to Indiana. Welcomed in Grandfather Halloway s home, Charity hopes to set up her loom and begin weaving cloth to sell. The older girls all except for Judith also wish to help. The rawness of the pioneer dwellings and way of life offend Judith s love of beauty and refinement. She wants to return to the silk and elegance of her grandmother s home. Except for her gift with young children and skill in fine sewing, she has nothing to contribute to their new way of life. At Grandfather Halloway s suggestion, she goes to live with the Huff family to help out, but also to learn practical household skills. It is in this kindly crucible that Judith must come to terms with herself, with her family s Quaker faith and convictions especially on the subject of slavery and of where, and with whom, she will spend her future years. This warm, believable tale about the meaning of freedom and its responsibility is vividly set against the background of social and industrial change in the 1840 s in the period leading up to the American Civil War.
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Allee, Marjorie Hill was born on June 2, 1890 in Carthage, Indiana, United States. Daughter of William B. and Anna Mary (Elliott) Hill.
After attending Earlham College, she returned to teach in the one-room school she had attended herself. The next year, she attended the University of Chicago, intending to become a writer, and graduated in 1911 with a Bachelor of Philosophy In 1912, she married zoologist Warder Clyde Allee.
Throughout his career, she would assist Allee in the preparation of his scientific publications, occasionally serving as co-author Her first book, a collaboration with Warder Allee, was Jungle Island (1925), a nonfiction children"s book describing the flora and fauna of Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal inspired by their stay at the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory in the winter of 1924. Other, similarly themed books by Allee were, a novel about scientific exploration at Woods Hole, Massachusetts which was a Newbery Honor book, and, a novel about biologists working to preserve the dune country of northern Indiana.
Allee wrote six historical novels about Quaker families confronting the changes of mid-19th century America.
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Member Society of Friends.
Married Warder Clyde Allee, September 4, 1912. Children: Warder (deceased), Barbara Elliott, Mary Newlin.