Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931)[1] was an American artist and illustrator.
Sterrett received her first commission at the age of 19 (shortly after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis) from the Penn Publishing Company to illustrate Old French Fairy tales (1920), a collection of works from the 19th-century French author, Comtesse de Ségur (Sophie Fedorovna Rostopchine)......
Tanglewood tales for Boys and Girls (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys.
His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repent.
It reportedly inspired the name of the thickly wooded Tanglewood Island in the state of Washington............
Nathaniel Hawthorne ( born Nathaniel Hathorne
July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.
He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning.
The book was a favorite of Mary Catherine Farrington, the daughter of Tanglewood developer William Farrington.
Ironically, Hawthorne hated living in the Berkshires.
The Tanglewood neighborhood of Houston was named after the book.
Later, a nearby mansion was renamed Tanglewood, where outdoor classical concerts were held, which became a Berkshire summer tradition.
The owner of the cottage, a railroad baron, renamed the cottage Tanglewood in honor of the book written there.
Although Hawthorne informs us in the introduction that these stories were also later retold by Cousin Eustace, the frame stories of A Wonder-Book have been abandoned.
Hawthorne wrote the first book while renting a small cottage in the Berkshires, a vacation area for industrialists during the Gilded Age.
In the introduction, Hawthorne writes about a visit from his young friend Eustace Bright, who requested a sequel to A Wonder-Book, which impelled him to write the Tales.
It is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children.
Overview: The book includes the myths of: Theseus and the Minotaur (Chapter: The Minotaur)Antaeus and the Pygmies (Chapter: The Pygmies)Dragon\'s Teeth (Chapter: The Dragon\'s Teeth)Circe\'s Palace (Chapter: Circe\'s Palace)Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto, and the Pomegranate Seed (Chapter: The Pomegranate Seed)Jason and the Golden Fleece (Chapter: The Golden Fleece)Hawthorne wrote introduction, titled The Wayside, referring to The Wayside in Concord, where he lived from 1852 until his death.
Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931)[1] was an American artist and illustrator.
Sterrett received her first commission at the age of 19 (shortly after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis) from the Penn Publishing Company to illustrate Old French Fairy tales (1920), a collection of works from the 19th-century French author, Comtesse de Ségur (Sophie Fedorovna Rostopchine)......
Tanglewood tales for Boys and Girls (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
