Mothers and ChildrenW. Collins, 1918 - 166 pages These 14 brief, contrasting vignettes, which each stand alone and deal with one mother and her child, provide glimpses of a huge range of mother-child relationships. Most extol the passion, depth and fulfilment of maternal love, which is likened in some tales to divine love, even protecting a child from beyond the grave (EILEEN). Some mothers invest all ambition in their offspring (ARTHUR). Some stories describe tragedies – MARGUERITE turns out ‘a dumbie’, longed-for PHI-PHI is an ‘idiot’, clever GERALD has a serious accident at Eton, BOBBY dies aged 4, devastating his mother, idolised CHARLIE becomes delinquent and ruins the family (though retaining his mother’s adoration). DOUGLAS’s adoptive mother cannot love him as his own mother still does. Some children return this devotion - GERALD comforts his anguished mother after his accident, MAUD gives up married love to care for her blind mother. NORMAN’s mother, fleeing a drunken, murderous husband, is redeemed and comforted by her son. Other mothers, like DERRICK’s, hate their children, with reciprocal dislike. GLADYS, spoiled by her mother, grows up selfish and arrogant. JANEY’s mother despises husband and child, and Janey dreams of her absent father. |
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Page 20
... nursery for further demonstration , as if he were conferring a favour . Human nature has never appeared to him in anything but a friendly light ; should he require a seat , he will perch himself on the first available knee , with the ...
... nursery for further demonstration , as if he were conferring a favour . Human nature has never appeared to him in anything but a friendly light ; should he require a seat , he will perch himself on the first available knee , with the ...
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... die rather than be in pain . She is a miser over the child ; grudges his going out to spend the afternoon in another nursery ; resents with an im- placable animosity even a hint that his manners are not 24 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
... die rather than be in pain . She is a miser over the child ; grudges his going out to spend the afternoon in another nursery ; resents with an im- placable animosity even a hint that his manners are not 24 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
Page 64
... very soon Mrs. Temple had been up and about again , looking just a little paler in her loveliness , but not otherwise altered or deepened through maternity . Marguérite had her fine nurseries , and her 64 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
... very soon Mrs. Temple had been up and about again , looking just a little paler in her loveliness , but not otherwise altered or deepened through maternity . Marguérite had her fine nurseries , and her 64 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
Page 65
Julia Frankau. maternity . Marguérite had her fine nurseries , and her expensive nurse ; morning and evening , unless ... nursery . From see- ing her morning and evening , Mrs. Temple began to send for her in the afternoons ; made her ...
Julia Frankau. maternity . Marguérite had her fine nurseries , and her expensive nurse ; morning and evening , unless ... nursery . From see- ing her morning and evening , Mrs. Temple began to send for her in the afternoons ; made her ...
Page 66
... seemed to need her . Her evening visit to the nursery grew longer ; Margy would now be brought to her in the morning also , whilst she dressed ; she would even find an excuse to run upstairs for a moment at 66 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
... seemed to need her . Her evening visit to the nursery grew longer ; Margy would now be brought to her in the morning also , whilst she dressed ; she would even find an excuse to run upstairs for a moment at 66 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
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Page 21 - I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To ,the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine.