Belle Kanaris Maniates: 7 books

Greek-American novelist Belle K. Maniates wrote romantic novels that explored the clashes between the social classes in the early 1900s. Heroines like Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley (1915) and Penny of Top Hill Trail (1919) harbor secrets and ambitions that are played out in passionate romances with mysterious, wealthy suitors.

Greek-American novelist Belle K. Maniates wrote romantic novels that explored the clashes between the social classes in the early 1900s. Heroines like Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley (1915) and Penny of Top Hill Trail (1919) harbor secrets and ambitions that are played out in passionate romances with mysterious, wealthy suitors.

Some people have children born unto them, some acquire children and others have children thrust upon them. Silvia and I are of the last named class. We have no offspring of our own, but yesterday, today, and forever we have those of our neighbor.

Across lots to the Brumble farm came the dusty apparition of a boy, a tousle-headed, freckle-faced, gaunt-eyed little fellow, clad in a sort of combination suit fashioned from a pair of overalls and a woman's shirtwaist. In search of Miss M'ri, he looked into the kitchen, the henhouse, the dairy, and...

The secret of Amarilly's charm is in the "glad-you-are-alive-feeling" she gives you. She will share her optimism, her joy in life, with you if you will but let her. Amarilly is the oldest of 8 children, being raised by a single mother. Amarilly is in a way, almost the mother to the children,...

On an afternoon in early spring a man lounged against the wall of the station waiting for the express from the east. Slender of waist and hip, stalwart of shoulder, some seventy-two inches of sinewy height, he was the figure of the typical cattleman. His eyes were deep-set and far-seeing; his lean, brown face, roughened by outdoor life, was austere and resolute in expression.