Gay as a Grig: Memories of a North Texas Girlhood Book

Ellen Bowie Holland grew up in a house at Weatherford, Texas, which had the "motherly look of a large and gallant hen hovering over too many chicks" and which was inhabited by a "lively, warm-hearted family." This book is her record of the "whole world of little things which enriched young lives" in her small town. Blessed with a discerning and sympathetic eye, she had much happiness to remember and record, and she employs a charming combination of nostalgia and comedy as she brings to life again these bygone days. Her childhood experiences ate illuminated by the wisdom of maturity, and the whole is infused with a deft humor, developed through her skilled use of fantasy and through her ability to laugh at the pretensions of the Victorian life she saw.