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The novel satirizes both the response of her neighbors down below—including the food they send for the funeral and the obituary written for a Southern newspaper—and the view from above, where Elner meets her dead sister, her hero Thomas Alva Edison, and God Himself: her former neighbor, Raymond, a modest, pipe-smoking divinity.
Aunt Arie Carpenter (1885-1978) [1] was a resident of Macon County, North Carolina, in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.She was interviewed for the Foxfire Book published in 1972, through which she became known to thousands of readers. [2]
Erma Louise Bombeck (née Fiste; February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life, syndicated from 1965 to 1996.
Fanny reveals the reason she was avoiding Heaven: she is pregnant with the preacher's baby and has to stay hidden so the preacher and his wife can pretend the baby is theirs, with the preacher's wife faking her own pregnancy. Fanny tells Heaven she loves her, then she and Tom leave. Heaven picks up a local paper and sees Kitty's obituary.
Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage (2022) 256 pages New York Viking (May 3, 2022) ISBN 978-0593295779. Also: Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective (2009, New York: Viking Press ISBN 978-0-14-311606-6 ), an omnibus edition reprinting the first two books in the series ( Aunt Dimity's Death and Aunt Dimity and the Duke ) [ 5 ]
The laudatio Iuliae amitae ("Eulogy for Aunt Julia") is a funeral oration that Julius Caesar said in 68 BC to honor his dead aunt Julia, the widow of Marius. [1] [2] The introduction of this laudatio funebris is reproduced in the work Divus Iulius by the Roman historian Suetonius: [3]
Summer- A young girl who serves as the main character and narrator of the story.She was orphaned as a baby, and was passed from relative to relative, until being taken in permanently by her Aunt May and Uncle Ob, who provided her with a happy, love-filled home.
The image of "dear aunt Jane" presented in the biography was not seriously challenged until 1940, when psychologist D. W. Harding argued that there was a "regulated hatred" in Austen's works. [17] With the exception of Harding's 1965 edition, there has been "no serious editorial engagement with the Memoir and little critical attention paid to ...