Helen Fern Daringer (1892–1986)
Author of Adopted Jane
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Works by Helen Fern Daringer
Bigity Anne 4 copies
The golden thorn 4 copies
The Turnabout Twins 3 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1892-06-24
- Date of death
- 1986-01-26
- Burial location
- Dodge Grove Cemetery, Mattoon, Illinois, USA
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Eastern Illinois University
- Occupations
- children's book author
young adult writer
professor of English Literature
anthologist - Organizations
- Columbia University
- Short biography
- Helen Fern Daringer was born in 1892 in eastern Illinois. Independent and way ahead of her time, Ms. Daringer graduated from Eastern Illinois University, obtained a Master's Degree in English, and headed to New York City, where she became a professor of English literature at Columbia University. Miss Daringer wrote numerous books for children and young adults, including Country Cousin, The Turnabout Twins, and Mary Montgomery, Rebel. -- Treasury of Great Children's Books.
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- Works
- 22
- Members
- 278
- Popularity
- #83,543
- Rating
- 4.3
- Reviews
- 6
- ISBNs
- 11
The details: Adopted Jane will make you crave cake for at least a week. There's more to the story than that, of course, but cake is a recurring literary theme here. Reading this prompted my earliest baking experiments, which in turn led to the creation of my legendary three-chocolate brownie recipe, which you can find on my blog because I don't share my brownies but I'm happy to tell you how to make your own. (One pot. One pan. Half an hour total including work and baking, especially if you don't bother letting them cool. What's not to love?)
Anyway. I fell in love with this book at an early age and never grew out of it. It's one of those modern classics that don't romanticize the past, but do make you happy to take this guided tour.
If you do read it (or already have), will you let me know what you think of the ending? I love this story, but every time I get to the last chapter, even as a middle-aged lady, I can't help thinking I would have chosen differently than Jane does. Maybe that makes her better than me. Yeah, it probably does.… (more)