All Kneeling

1928. Anne Parrish (Mrs. Charles Corliss) wrote and illustrated children's books but is best known as a novelist. Her novel, The Perennial Bachelor, won the Harper Prize Novel Contest. In All Kneeling, Anne Parrish tells the story of the beautiful Christabel. She had a sweet, sensitive soul that responded to the beauties of nature and poured itself out in lyric poetry. All who came into contact with her were captivated by her charm. No one suspected that beneath this spiritual sensitivity lay a deliberate strategy and that her every movement was prompted by a selfish aim, no one, that is, except Uncle Johnnie, whose unfortunate love affair rendered him cynical. After the publication of her first book Christabel found Philadelphia atmosphere stifling and came to New York, where, for a host of admiring great-aunts she substituted a crowd of impoverished young aesthetes who knelt before her in reverend worship. Her contrast of staid Philadelphia family life with New York bohemian circles has made an extraordinarily rich setting. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.