Ruth Perry

Tim Kelly

"Two cleaning women come to scrub down a forgotten room and are visited by the spirits of the ladies who met death inside the dark walls. Each is doomed by her own bitterness to walk the Tower. Much of the dialogue is taken directly from historical record. In a brief overlapping of the present and the past, there is a touching scene of communication and understanding that sets the embittered women free of their bondage to the past."--Publisher website.

Ladies of the Tower

"Love is Eternal" was the inscription Abraham Lincoln had engraved on the wedding ring he gave Mary Todd. Mary's own story, especially her romance with Abraham and her years of marriage.

Irving Stone's Love is Eternal

Eudora Welty

"Lily Daw is young, pretty, perhaps more than a little peculiar, and in love! However, the well-meaning ladies of the Helping Hand Society are determined to see Lily off to the State Home for the Feeble-Minded. They just don't believe her when she says she's planning to be married this very day. The ladies certainly do have grounds for concern. Lily has always had an odd imagination, and the man she's describing now is a 'show fellow.' One thing is clear to the ladies, the faster they can get Lily committed, the better. They urgently try to get her consent. As they're winning her over, a 'show fellow' appears and actually wants to marry Lily."--From publisher's website.

Lily Daw and the Three Ladies

Women, Letters, and the Novel

"Okay, kids, time for devotions. Sit down and listen..." NOT! Bible Stories Like Grandma Told 'Em is a hands on devotional which keeps the children active with activities like: -Coins to find -Animal sounds needed -Riddles to answer -Crafts to reinforce spiritual take-away -Recipes that help tell the story -Visual aids to peak curiosity Each story will leave them begging for more! In addition to Bible Stories Like Grandma Told 'Em, Ruth has written two books. A devotional, What If and memoirs of a caregiver, Up with the Good, Down with the Bad. Motivating and inspiring others is the underlying theme that keeps Ruth excited about writing. She is a member of the American Christian Writers Group in the Ozarks.

Bible Stories Like Grandma Told 'Em

Ruth Perry describes the transformation of the English family as a function of several major social changes taking place in the eighteenth century including the development of a market economy and waged labor, enclosure and the redistribution of land, urbanization, the 'rise' of the middle class, and the development of print culture. In particular, Perry traces the shift from a kinship orientation based on blood relations to a kinship axis constituted by conjugal ties as it is revealed in popular literature of the second half of the eighteenth century. Perry focuses particularly on the effect these changes had on women's position in families. She uses social history, literary analysis and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Henry MacKenzie, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, and many others. This important study by a leading eighteenth-century scholar will be of interest to social and literary historians.

The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748–1818

Novel Relations

David Rogers

Allan Jay Friedman

"The reluctant Hobbit hero Bilbo Baggins is asked to join the band, for they can hardly hope to succeed as an unlucky thirteen. Bilbo finally agrees to the adventure! They encounter the dangerous trolls, then escape into Goblin country where Bilbo finds a gold ring with magical power. It's a ring of invisibility. Bilbo is cautious and thoughtful but saves them in every crisis, even in the climactic scene with the dragon Smaug."--Publisher website.

A Musical Play

The Hobbit

Ever felt discouraged? Alone? Forgotten? Then this devotional is for you! With wit and humor, Ruth Perry will tug at your heartstrings as she shares lessons learned from her life experiences. After being separated from her friends and isolated from almost everything, Ruth turned to God. He lovingly showed her that she could overcome any difficulties with His help. He will help you too! It is with a grateful heart that Ruth gives God the credit for What If. Without God's help, these devotionals would not exist. "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5 NASB). Let What If encourage and inspire you in your daily walk with God!

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