Book · Book · 1904
Pass it on
Tillie, a Mennonite Maid
60Watch it awake.
A sharp little novel about a real people and the cost of leaving their kitchen.
The review
Helen Martin wrote her Pennsylvania Dutch neighbors with a satire they earned and a tenderness she does not always sustain. Tillie is not a modern heroine pasted into a bonnet. She wants books, and the people who raised her experience that want as a rejection. Both facts can be true.
Read it as a document of a people who intended not to dissolve, and of a girl who paid for the dissolution. Do not use it to sneer at Plain people. They were trying to keep a house.
Journal
Keep Tillie, a Mennonite Maid in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
O Pioneers!
74 instead of 60
O Pioneers! is still a novel book, and it scores 74 instead of 60. What you gain is stewardship: She is planting for a house that will outlast her particular grief.
The eight
- 7Industry
Farm work and school are the two poles. Both are taken seriously.
- 6Household
The family is close and unbending. Love and control are hard to separate.
- 6Piety
The church's rule is the pressure. The novel is not devout, but it is specific.
- 6Courage
She risks the only world she has for an education.
- 5Republic
The community is a real polity, shown mostly from the girl's side.
- 6Temperance
Ambition is not free. The book sends a bill.
- 7Truth
The dialect and the customs are the subject, not seasoning.
- 5Stewardship
What she might hand on is a mind. What she might lose is the people.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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