The Primrose Ring
Ruth Sawyer
Read The Primrose Ring by Ruth Sawyer in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/15482-the-primrose-ring.txt.
Description
Ruth Sawyer published this children's fantasy in 1915 with Harper and Brothers, illustrated, and dedicated to the little mother who once wove a primrose ring for her. The storyteller, sitting in the shadow of the market place, asks a question. Would any of it have happened if Trustee Day had not fallen on April 30? That day is May Eve, a bewitched and bewitching time.
Margaret MacLean, in charge of Ward C at Saint Margaret's Free Hospital for Children, buys primroses that morning. She buys them from a flower seller at the street corner. Primroses are gentle flowers, the tale says, used by faeries for thousands of years to work magic. From that purchase, strange and tender happenings follow among sick children, trustees, and a hospital built by charity. The book blends fairy lore with hospital life, warmly and without sentimentality.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ruth Sawyer |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 186 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |