The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour

Author: Lillian Hellman

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1953

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780822202059

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A serious play about two women who run a school for girls.


For the Children's Hour

For the Children's Hour

Author: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Publisher:

Published: 1906

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13:

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This is a collection of stories relating to a child's everyday experiences.


The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780879239718

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Of all of Longfellow's beloved poems (and there are many) none is so personal, so sunny, or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his three daughters, "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with the golden hair." Longfellow's happiest hours were spent writing on a cluttered desk by the south window of his beloved Craigie House, an imposing mansion still preserved on Cambridge's famous Brattle Street. It was here that most of the action takes place (except for his literary reference, and brief excursion, to the "Mouse-Tower on the Rhine"), here that his daughters come creeping down the stairs to beard the gentle, genial poet in his lair. Lang's luminous illustrations perfectly capture the happy atmosphere of that house, the author's affections for his daughters, and the painterly quality of his verse. This book for young readers presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language, her newly illustrated, beautifully presented, and now available to a new generation of readers.


The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour

Author: Kenneth S. Robson

Publisher: Lyre Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780615391984

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THE CHILDREN'S HOUR is a "must read" according to Dr. Robson's colleagues in the field of child psychiatry. They are delighted by the book's combination of compassion, insight, poetry, and candor. They find its emphasis on non-chemical therapy to be a necessary antidote to the more mechanistic, biological approaches currently in vogue. And they note that the book is equally important to professionals and the general public. No one can read this engaging, witty, devastatingly honest, and wonderfully wise memoir without feeling its direct relevance to the sorrows, dangers, and triumphs we have all experienced as children and continue to experience in the lives of the young in our immediate and extended families. Whoever we are, wherever we have been, this book cuts deeply into our common humanity.


The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour

Author: Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo

Publisher: UP Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9789715425414

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New fiction anthology of stories abuot childhood.


The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour

Author: Gémino H. Abad

Publisher: UP Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9789715425407

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Literature from the Philippines, distributed on behalf of University of Philippines by University of Hawai'i Press.


The Children’s Hour

The Children’s Hour

Author: Julia Erhart

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2024-05-14

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 0228021456

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Based on a play by Lillian Hellman, The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream commercial American film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. It centres on a teacher at a girls’ school (Shirley MacLaine) who is accused of harbouring feelings for her co-worker (Audrey Hepburn) and depicts the intense moral panic that ensues. Produced in the social climate of the Lavender Scare, the film reveals deep insights into the politics of sexuality and censorship in midcentury America, only a few years before more visible struggles for queer liberation. The director, William Wyler, lobbied hard to get the film made after an earlier straight-washed version in 1936. The tense road to production included debates about whether to eliminate mentions of lesbianism from the script and how implicitly queer subject matter might conflict with the Production Code, by then weakened but still in force. Julia Erhart’s reading of the film’s conception, production, and reception advances a nuanced case of censorship as a productive force. While contests between Hellman and Wyler suppressed scenes of overt affection between main characters Karen and Martha, reception was comparatively fixated on the characters’ lesbianism: it threatened middlebrow movie critics in the mainstream press and resonated with queer audiences. Erhart’s attentive interpretation of both the script and the sonic landscape yields a detailed analysis of the soundtrack as an original pro-lesbian element. As issues of queer censorship continue to permeate life and culture more than fifty years later, Erhart demonstrates that The Children’s Hour is as salient to social and political tensions around gender and sexuality today as it was in the 1960s.