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Dorothy
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4,99 € |
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| Verlag: | E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 25.01.2024 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9786059285964 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 300 |
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So long a time had passed that Dorothy C. had grown to be what father John called "a baker's dozen of years old"; and upon another spring morning, as fair as that when she first came to them, the girl was out upon the marble steps, scrubbing away most vigorously. The task was known locally as "doing her front," and if one wishes to be considerable respectable, in Baltimore, one's "front" must be done every day. On Saturdays the entire marble facing of the basement must also be polished; but "pernickity" Mrs. Chester was known to her neighbors as such a forehanded housekeeper that she had her Saturday's work done on Friday, if this were possible.
Now this was Friday and chanced to be a school holiday; so Dorothy had been set to the week-end task, which she hated; and therefore she put all the more energy into it, the sooner to have done with it, meanwhile singing at the top of her voice. Then, when the postman came round the corner of the block, she paused in her singing to stare at him for one brief instant. The next she had pitched her voice a few notes higher still, and it was her song that greeted her father's ears and set him smiling in his old familiar fashion.
Unfortunately, he had not been smiling when she first perceived him and there had been a little catch in her tones as she resumed her song. Each was trying to deceive the other and each pretending that nothing of the sort was happening.
"Heigho, my child! At it again, giving the steps a more tombstone effect? Well, since it's the fashion—go ahead!"
"I wish the man, or men, who first thought of putting scrubby-steps before people's houses had them all to clean himself! Hateful old thing!"
Now this was Friday and chanced to be a school holiday; so Dorothy had been set to the week-end task, which she hated; and therefore she put all the more energy into it, the sooner to have done with it, meanwhile singing at the top of her voice. Then, when the postman came round the corner of the block, she paused in her singing to stare at him for one brief instant. The next she had pitched her voice a few notes higher still, and it was her song that greeted her father's ears and set him smiling in his old familiar fashion.
Unfortunately, he had not been smiling when she first perceived him and there had been a little catch in her tones as she resumed her song. Each was trying to deceive the other and each pretending that nothing of the sort was happening.
"Heigho, my child! At it again, giving the steps a more tombstone effect? Well, since it's the fashion—go ahead!"
"I wish the man, or men, who first thought of putting scrubby-steps before people's houses had them all to clean himself! Hateful old thing!"
Evelyn Raymond was an author living in Baltimore, Maryland who was an established writer when Edward Stratemeyer asked her to write the Dorothy Chester series.
Stratemeyer began to have problems with his publisher, Chatterton-Peck, and several lawsuits were the result. Eventually he was able to purchase the rights and plates for many series volumes from them to take them to a new publisher, Grosset & Dunlap.
As Chatterton-Peck tried to replace the numerous series that Stratemeyer withdrew from them, they contacted three of his authors they could identify, Howard R. Garis, Lilian C. Garis, and Evelyn Raymond. They asked if they would continue the series they had been writing directly for them, cutting Stratemeyer out of the loop. The Garises contacted Stratemeyer and informed him of the offer. Raymond did not. She actually wrote more volumes in what was planned to be a "Dorothy Chester" series but was ultimately called the Dorothy series.
Stratemeyer began to have problems with his publisher, Chatterton-Peck, and several lawsuits were the result. Eventually he was able to purchase the rights and plates for many series volumes from them to take them to a new publisher, Grosset & Dunlap.
As Chatterton-Peck tried to replace the numerous series that Stratemeyer withdrew from them, they contacted three of his authors they could identify, Howard R. Garis, Lilian C. Garis, and Evelyn Raymond. They asked if they would continue the series they had been writing directly for them, cutting Stratemeyer out of the loop. The Garises contacted Stratemeyer and informed him of the offer. Raymond did not. She actually wrote more volumes in what was planned to be a "Dorothy Chester" series but was ultimately called the Dorothy series.
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