Her Father’s Daughter
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Fleeting excerpt: There were a few high places on the peak of Linda¿s soul and on one of them homed a tiny flock of notes of rapture; notes as sweet as the voice of the white-banded mockingbird of Argentina.
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Although I have establish several of Gene Stratton Porter’s books to be moralistic, I have generally establish that the literary scene-painting, naturalistic content, and charming characters redeem the tale ultimately. This tale is no different, in my opinion. Yes, I establish her obviously racist remarks to be offensive. But as it relates to the Japanese alone, I regularly wondered if her comments carried an element of prescience.
It is absolutely right that race is no judge of intellectual or scholastic ability, and all of GSP’s comments in that regard must be labeled as “racist”. But her comments relating to the political threat from Japan must be considered in the light of history. Our country did suffer an unprovoked attack from the Japanese, not too many years later than the writing of this book. How much of that attack’s success was related to information gleaned by a tiny number of Japanese spies living in America in the decades preceding 1941?
I urge you to read the book and take from it the excellent that it does offer. The naturalistic information and the detail about pre-metropolitan Los Angeles is very appealing.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Just the info about the desert plants should make this a book to read. Yes the romance is a small hokey.
Many of you say it is racist but you have to remember when it was written.
I reflect she was way yet to be of her time and was right to try and make people aware that people from another country were using free education in our schools here to infiltrate.
Isn’t that just what happened before 911? Didn’t they train at our colleges and flight schools. Didn’t we, for free, show them how to do this?
When you read a period piece you have to read it as just that and remember what period you are reading about.It was written in 1921.
And what happened exactly 20 years later? umm Pearl Harbor? the 911 of the 40’s??
If for nothing else at least read the parts about the desert. Gene Stratton-Porter was a wonderful conservationist and far yet to be of her time.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I was very disappointed in this book. One of the main tale lines in the book is the main character, Linda, helping one of the boys at her high school so as to be the valdictorian of his class over another boy who happens to be Japanese. There are some parts of the book that are terribly racist-America for Americans and preserving it from the “red communists” the “yellow Japs”, the “treachery of the Mexicans” and the “slowly uprising might of the black man”. The rest of the book is ok-a girl’s struggle to do the work she was meant to do and getting her honest inheritance from her selfish sister. I am middle through this book, but i don’t know if I will continue. It is tragic that the leader of The girl of the Limberlost descended to such a level-dread based propaganda.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I was disappointed with the tale plot of this book, but in all fairness I must say I read it after reading most of Gene Stratton Porter’s additional books which were a delight.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I establish this book to be very offensive with the blatent racism against the Japanese. But even if that weren’t the case, the tale line of a young girl writing articles for a magazine and then including so many of the magazine article recipes in the book was really dull. Then to top that off, she was really preachy about morals. Because I had read “Freckles” and “A Girl of the Limberlost”, I had thought I would delight in this book. Boy was I incorrect.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5