Emilie Loring was born on September 5, 1866. Since I wanted to do a post for her birthday I started digging around online to see what I could find. Jackpot! I discovered that she has a biographer named Patti Bender. Who has a website and a blog. All about Emilie Loring. Lots of browsing commenced. And, of course, I had to share.
Most of the romance readers I know of that have even heard of Emilie Loring, much less read her books, started when they were very, very young. So it doesn’t surprise me that this was on the home page of Dr. Patti Bender’s website:
I was ten years old when I read my first Emilie Loring book. I read every one, and then I read them over again, at least once each year. I identified with Emilie’s sunshiny personality, and through more than fifty readings, her books became so familiar that my sister could read a line, and I would tell her the next from memory. But I couldn’t say much about their author.The Emilie Loring Collection by Patti Bender
She goes on to detail how she did so much research learning everything she could about Emilie Loring that it turned into a book.
Yeah, I’m definitely getting that book.