One fine day, Shirley decided to leave work early and decided to take a trolley, while looking for affordable apartments or houses to rent. Shirley is the oldest girl in the family and is employed as a secretary. The family has a total of five children that need to be taken care of and from the look of things the apartment that they have been living on, will be closed in a few months’ time. Their father has recently passed away, while their mother is seriously ill. The book begins as the Hollister’s find themselves in an extremely difficult situation. If she fails, then her family will not have a home. Within the same month, Shirley must be able to find a new house for the family. Nonetheless, it does not take long before the small house that they had lived in for quite some time is to be demolished. Instead, Shirley becomes optimistic, irrespective of the various challenges that her family faces.

Shirley’s quick thinking and courage save the day.ĭespite the fact that Shirley had no option, but to bear the burden herself, she does not become bitter. While going with her day-to-day work, Shirley finds herself at the center of espionage and fraud attempts. Due to the fact that Shirley’s father passed away and her mother is not fit to work, Shirley must push herself beyond her limits, to ensure that she provides for her family at all times. Shirley, the protagonist, is the eldest child and serves as a stenographer. In Enchanted Barn, a destitute family manages to turn an extremely old stone barn into a family home. Many reviewers have likened the Enchanted Barn to a fairy tale, where hard work, love, faith, and courage outweigh the forces of despair. The Enchanted Barn is one of the best performing books by author Grace Livingston. However, after ten years, her marriage got sour, and the two broke up. After the death of her husband, Grace Livingston got married to Flavius Josephus Lutz, who served as a church organist. The death of her first husband and lack of funds were Grace Livingston Hill’s greatest life motivators.īecause Grace Livingston Hill did not have any other source of income, she was prompted to write on a frequent basis. The first novel that Grace Livingston Hill wrote raised more than enough money for author Hill to go on a vacation to Chautauqua. Marcia’s sister was a renowned author who penned using her pseudonym name, Pansy. Both of her parents and her sister were writers as well. Grace Livingston Hill was born on April 16, 1865, in Wellsville, New York to Charles Montgomery, a Presbyterian minister, and Marcia MacDonald. Most of the characters that Grace Livingston Hill creates are normally Christian women or women who are raised within the confines of religion. As an accomplished author, Grace Hill has penned more than 100 novels and several other short stories.

Grace Livingston Hill was a well-established 20th Century author, who wrote books using her real names and her pseudonym, Marcia Macdonald.

Re-Creations by Grace Livingston Hill