Grace Aguilar
Birth date: June 02, 1816
Died: September 16, 1847
Grace Aguilar's Books
This one of several novels posthumously published by Grace Aguilar's mother. It displays nothing of Aguilar's passionate Jewish side (other than a few moral passages referring to a benevolent paternal God, which could be, and no doubt were, assumed by the majority of her readers to refer to Christia...
Michael Galchinsky has put together a very interesting and well-edited selection of shorter writings (and a few excerpts) of Jewish-English novelist and religious writer Grace Aguilar. He's chosen chiefly those writings which touched on Jewish questions and were intended for Jewish audiences, partly...
I think you either share his taste in stories or you don't, and I don't. Most of the stories were very abstract and I'd say only a quarter dealt with the apocalypse in a traditional sense, the rest seemed to deal more with cataclysmic change in an individual's life. Only a few were character based...
[These notes were made in 1982. I read this title in a 1905 edition, illustrated by H.M. Brock, from University of Calgary library:]. A very romantic look at a period of Scots history which never struck me as particularly romantic, albeit it's bang in the Middle Ages. This novel suffers from a "dou...
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