Talk:Sister Sue
| Information about this edition | |
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| Edition: | Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. |
| Source: | https://archive.org/details/sistersue00portiala |
| Contributor(s): | ragpicker |
| Proofreaders: | ragcleaner |
Reviews edit
- The Bookman, "Brief Reviews of Recent Fiction," July 1921:
- "Sister Sue" (Houghton Mifflin) is a posthumous book by the author of "Pollyanna". Those who loved that book will be as enthusiastic over this as over anything Mrs. Porter ever wrote. Those who have not been followers of Mrs. Porter are in danger of becoming converts if they read "Sister Sue".
- Sister Sue was so called because "to any questions you asked of any of the family there was only one answer: 'Sister Sue will know'; 'Sister Sue will do it'." Sister Sue had dreamed of becoming a pianist and of hearing audiences shout, "Encore! Encore! Susanna Gilmore! Encore!" Instead her dreams were sacrificed in order that she might care for an impoverished and stricken father and an inordinately selfish brother and sister—such as one meets in many a family. Even her suitor fails her; but Sister Sue is never vanquished and in the end—well, in the end everything is very satisfactory.