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Lucy Thurston and Linda Arvidson
de Lucy Thurston et Linda Arvidson
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This special edition of the autobiographies of Lucy Goodale Thurston and Linda Arvidson Griffith bring together the lives of two women at different times in American history. The life of Lucy Goodale Thurston was filled with adventure and tragedy as one of the first American missionaries to voyage to the Hawaiian Islands bent on fulfilling the wishes of Henry Obookiah, a native of Hawaii, who tragically died before he could complete his journey back to the Pacific. Linda Arvidson Griffith was the wife of famed silent film director D. W. Griffith and experienced firsthand the birth of the motion picture industry from its inception, working alongside film notables of the era such as Mary and Jack Pickford, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mabel Normand, Blanche Sweet, and Mae Marsh. Published in one volume for the first time and edited with additional material not published previously.
À propos des auteurs :
Lucy Goodale was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1795 and is best known as one of the first Christian missionaries that voyaged to Hawaii in 1819. She initially applied to a newspaper advertisement for volunteers to go to the then-mostly unknown Pacific archipelago. Before leaving New England she married a fellow missionary from New England named Asa Thurston. They would spend the rest of their lives in Hawaii, raising a family and becoming a part of the early history of the islands. Lucy Thurston died in October 1876.Linda Arvidson (born Johnson) was born in 1884 in San Francisco of Swedish parents. She was a stage actress initially prior to the emergence of silent movies of which she later became a well-known fixture in the early days of the motion picture industry. She was credited under the name Linda Arvidson or Linda Griffith, depending on the movie. She married D. W. Griffith but later separated from him before 1920. For reasons of professional discretion they kept their marriage a secret for many years. Arvidson is credited as having written one of the first motion picture memoirs and her book remains an important source for biographers today. Linda Arvidson died in July 1949 in New York City.Gary Brin was born in 1965 and has lived in the United States Virgin Islands, Hawaii and California. He has edited numerous original literary works over the years-both new and revised. In 2019 he established Standish Press to bring forth interesting fictional and historical material usually ignored by mainstream publishers because of specific views or content. In addition to publishing books, he also created the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Public Library (named after the mother of Abraham Lincoln) in 2014 to make available hard-to-find books to a worldwide audience.
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