According to the Pattern

Grace Livingston Hill

Revell, 1982 - Fiction - 186 pages

She was stronger than most women, but could she win this most important contest? What she saw in the park that fine day changed Miriam Winthrop's life. She had been content with a simple family life, and she thought Claude was deeply in love with her and the children. But obviously her husband wanted the excitement of beautiful society women. So Miriam, shocked and heartbroken, determined to become the type of woman Claude admired and desired. It would take all her skills, most of the little money she had, but she would win him back, if it killed her! - Jacket.

Contents

• Introduction: 7
• A Fallen Idol: 11
• A Trip Abroad: 19

About the author

Grace Livingston Hill was born on April 16, 1865 in Wellsville, New York. In 1886, she moved with her family to Winter Park, Florida, where she got a job teaching gymnastics at a local college. She wrote her first book there, in an effort to raise money for a family vacation to Chautauqua Lake. The book was called Chatauqua Idyl and was published in 1887. She eventually married and began a family, but lost her husband to appendicitis. At this point in her life, her writing was the only way she could support her family. During her lifetime, she wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories of religious and Christian fiction including Blue Ruin and Mary Arden. She died in 1947 at the age of 82.

Bibliographic information

• Title: According to the Pattern; Volume 6 of Classic series, Grace Livingston Hill; Grace Livingston Hill Classic Series
• Author: Grace Livingston Hill
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Revell, 1982
• ISBN: 0800712978, 9780800712976
• Length: 186 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Religious