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100 1 _aWinslow, Thyra Samter,
_d1893-1961
245 1 0 _aPicture frames
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aReprinted in 1945 with title: Window panes.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-16
505 0 _aLittle Emma -- Grandma -- Mamie Carpenter -- A cycle of Manhattan -- Amy's story -- City folks -- Indian summer -- A love affair -- Birthday -- Corinna and her man -- The end of Anna.
508 _aBob Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"Picture frames" by Thyra Samter Winslow is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The pieces sketch sharp, witty portraits of American women navigating love, work, class, and family across Midwestern towns and big-city settings. Expect intimate, character-driven vignettes that probe ambition, respectability, and the stories people tell about themselves. The opening of the collection presents three portraits. In Little Emma, an Iowa girl heads to Chicago chasing the myth of the rich, world-weary benefactor, reinvents herself (with a friend’s guidance) as a “simple country” type, and lands a job where the older partner courts her with culture and, to her surprise, straightforward marriage. In Grandma, a seventy-three-year-old rotates among her grown children—overworked at one house, needled at another, gently ignored at a third—but on the train transforms herself into a gracious, beloved matriarch by spinning warm, idealized versions of her family to fellow travelers, a glow that fades when a chauffeur—not family—meets her in New York. Mamie Carpenter shifts to a Missouri town, where a pretty candy clerk from the wrong street resents the local “society” set and coolly sets her sights on wealthy Marlin Embury, engineering chance meetings and a modest persona that intrigues him, even as she avoids letting him see her home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923
653 _aShort stories, American
653 _aAmerican fiction -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063975869&seq=7
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78464
999 _c119183
_d119183