3 Quotes & Sayings By Amelia E Barr

Amelia Barr (1838-1921) was a prominent American writer and the first woman to be conferred an honorary degree from Harvard University. She is best remembered for her novel, The Claverings, which was published in 1866. The novel tells the story of an impoverished South Carolina family that rallies around its patriarch to overcome adversity. The Claverings was an instant success, selling 200,000 copies within two years of its first publication Read more

It was so popular that it was adapted into several plays and toured widely in Europe and America.

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Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition .. . Amelia E. Barr
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Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing. Amelia E. Barr