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By Maud Hart Lovelace. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding published ISBN: Plot Summary This volume combines the last two of the beloved Betsy-Tacy series. In Betsy and the Great Worldit is and year-old Betsy, in a rut and in need of a break, is embarking on a grand tour of Europe. Although sentimental Betsy knows she will miss her dear parents, her older sister, Julia, her younger sister, Margaret, and her lifelong friends Tacy and Tib, she embraces the romance of the trip with typical enthusiasm. In every place she visits, Betsy meets memorable people, and even has a few romances, but thoughts of her Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding beau Joe Willard are never far. Will they get over their old fight and be able to be friends—or more—again? Critical Evaluation Something about the Betsy-Tacy books have beguiled readers since their debut in Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding appeals because with her spirit and independence, she may as well be a twenty-first-century teen, packaged in the curious trappings of almost a century ago. That book ends dramatically with the start of World War I, which sends Betsy back to the United States and into the arms of her old flame, Joe Willard. Throughout the books, beginning with the high school years, Betsy and Joe Willard have danced a lovely waltz, teasing us with their compatibility and arguments. Here, finally, we get to enjoy the end of the story, as Betsy and Joe reconcile and marry at last. In a way, the last book is the most dated of the entire series, with many details of Betsy learning to cook and clean. When she decided to turn down a job in favor of Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding home to keep house for Joe, readers may wince. By contrast in the high school book, the scenes of the teens hanging out at the Ray house and in town seemed thoroughly modern. Teaser Betsy has left Minneapolis for a grand tour of Europe, eager to see the world and meet new people—and men. She lived there will her parents and two sisters until she graduated high school inwhen the family moved to Minneapolis and Maud attended the University of Minnesota. She married a newspaper reporter, then had a daughter, Merian, in The last was published in Most of the characters were based on real people in her own life. Like her own family, the fictional Ray family lived in a small Minnesota town on a hill. Even today, fans share their love for the series in the Betsy-Tacy Society, and the town of Mankato holds an annual Betsy festival. Booktalking Ideas The Betsy books are a great way to see what life was like a century ago without being bored stiff. Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding much has changed…and then again, everything has. What are some issues that teens must have dealt with back then, and what are some that are new to this generation? Why I Chose This Book I am a huge fan of the Betsy series, but for some reason did not get around to reading these last two until recently. Although all ages will enjoy even the first books, these last two are definitely aimed more at teens, rather than young girls. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Emma's YA Book Database. Skip to content. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading This entry was posted in Book. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Search for:. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. Post to Cancel. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy. Betsy and the Great World / Betsy's Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace

As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life Get some streaming picks. Pressure from Betsy's extended family to include their joint Jewish and Italian-Catholic heritage in the ceremony doesn't do much to assuage the title character's worries, nor does the lovelorn bitterness of her older sister, Connie, who's single, her parents assume, because she has the audacity to pursue the unfeminine profession of police officer. Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding all of his funds tied up into the money pit of a house he's building, Betsy's dad has to turn to his crooked brother-in-law, Oscar, for financial assistance, and soon a soft-spoken but menacing young mobster named Stevie Dee is supervising Eddie's construction project and Written by Anonymous. A movie like this is only as good as the ensemble in it, and in this case all the actors masterfully create characters that we immediately identify with or sympathize with. Sometimes we laugh with them, too, but unfortunately, not as much as one would hope. Out of the large cast, Ally Sheedy and Anthony LaPaglia shine above the other actors and are memorable. Also Catherine O'Hara is one of those people who makes me laugh just to look at her. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. The very different Betsy and Jake are getting married. They want a small wedding but their dads want to give a big. Director: Alan Alda. Writer: Alan Alda. Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. People's Must Watch. My Favorite Romantic Comedies. Share this Rating Title: Betsy's Wedding 5. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Alan Alda Eddie Hopper Joey Bishop Hopper - Eddie's Father Madeline Kahn Lola Hopper Anthony LaPaglia Stevie Dee Catherine O'Hara Gloria Henner Joe Pesci Oscar Henner Molly Ringwald Betsy Hopper Ally Sheedy Connie Hopper Burt Young Georgie Julie Bovasso Grandma Nicolas Coster Harry Lovell Bibi Besch Nancy Lovell Dylan Walsh Jake Lovell Camille Saviola Angelica Allan Rich Taglines: The wedding picture doesn't always tell the whole story. Edit Did You Know? Goofs At the construction site in New York, George and Stevie Dee never wear protection helmets, which is a standard procedure involving authorized and Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding personnel working or visiting the site even Eddie uses a helmet and he's a visitor just like Stevie and George are. Quotes Eddie Hopper : You got this tent for nothing? Connections Referenced in Home Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding Away: Episode 1. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Language: English. Runtime: 94 min. Sound Mix: Dolby. Color: Color Technicolor. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. Eddie Hopper. Gloria Henner. Oscar Henner. Betsy Hopper. Connie Hopper. Harry Lovell. Nancy Lovell. Betsy's Wedding - Wikipedia

I would like to make this sound like a hardship, but most of you know better. It was, as always, a pleasure and delight. And the truth is that I have been preparing for this speech, in a variety of ways, for thirty years, and especially for the last ten. Many of those issues have been explored in my column in The New York Times, and over and over again I Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding tried to reinforce a simple message that I believe has been distorted, muddled, misunderstood, and just plain lied about in recent years by those who want women to go, not forward, but backward. And that is that feminism is about choices. It is about women choosing for themselves which life roles they wish to pursue. It is about deciding who does and Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding and merits and earns and succeeds in what by smarts, capabilities, and heart—not by gender. It is about honoring individuals because of their humanity, not their physiology. And that is why my theme today is: Betsy Ray, Feminist Icon. Could Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding be better books, and could there be a better girl, adolescent, young woman, to teach us all those things about choices than the Betsy-Tacy Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding and Betsy herself, along with her widely disparate circle of Tacy and Tib, Julia and Margaret, Mrs. Ray and Anna the hired girl, Mrs. All these different women, who go so many different ways, with false starts and stops, with disappointments and limitations, and yet a sense that they can find a place for themselves in the world. Do you realize that not once, in any Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding, does any individual, male or female, suggest to Betsy that she cannot, as she so hopes to do, become a writer? Can anyone possibly appreciate the impact that made on a child like me, wanting it too but seeing all around me on the bookshelves the names of men and seeing all around me in my house the domesticated ways of women? In the early books, of course, this is not what we see. We see three little girls who begin as types: the shy and earnest one; the no-nonsense and literal one; and the ringleader, the storyteller, the adventurer, the center—Elizabeth Warrington Ray. The books are simply stories of small town life and enduring friendship among little girls, and so it is easy to overlook their importance as teaching tools. But consider the alternatives to children in the early grades. The images of girls tend, overwhelmingly, to be of fairy princesses spinning straw into gold or sleeping until they are awakened by a prince. Even the best ones usually show us caricatures instead of characters. Recently, for example, I wrote an introduction for a fiftieth anniversary edition of Madeline Viking, But attitude, truth to tell, is a surface, two-dimensional characteristic, attractive as it may be. The stories of Betsy, Tacy, and Tib transcend attitude just as the simplistic drawings of the early books give way to the more realistic albeit, to my mind, slightly oversweet pictures. They are ultimately books about character, and especially about the character of one girl whose greatest sin, throughout the books, is to undervalue herself. For those are the mistakes Betsy finds she cannot forgive, when she sells herself short, when she is not all she can be. In this she most resembles two other fictional heroines who, not surprisingly, also long to be writers and take their work very seriously indeed. But the key difference, I think, is a critical one. Both Anne and Jo are implicitly made to pay in those books for the fact that they do not conform to feminine norms. Anne begins life as an orphan and never is permitted to forget that she must work for a living—in fact, you might call her the Joe Willard of girls, although she is far less prickly and far more easy to like than Joe Willard. Jo March of Little Women habitually reminds herself how unattractive she is and settles down, in one of the most unconvincing matches in fiction, with the older, most unromantic Professor Bhaer. It is her beautiful sister Amy who gets the real guy, the rich and romantic Laurie. Betsy, by contrast, never had to pay for the sin of being herself; in fact, she only finds herself under a cloud when she is less than herself. At base, she is a charmed soul from beginning to end because she can laugh at herself and take herself seriously at the same time, because she is serious but never a prig, and interested in boys but never a flirt. But first, like most of us, she has to do what is wrong for her to find out what is right. She decides to nab Phil just for the fun of it, and to that end she adds the letter E to the end of her perfectly good name, sprays herself with Jockey Club perfume, and uses green stationery to write notes instead of her poetry or stories. They both had cedar hope chests and took pleasure in embroidering their initials on towels to lay away. Each one had picked out a silver pattern and they were planning to give each other spoons in these patterns for Christmases and birthdays. When Betsy and Tacy and Tib talked about their fu ture they planned to be writers, dancers, circus acrobats. But she never looks away from her own aspirations. And there are, interestingly, no naysayers among her family members. While the Rays have three daughters, early on two of them are already committed to having careers outside the home, Julia as an opera singer, Betsy as a writer. The idea of something that is yours to do became narrower and narrower as my mother grew up. As Betty Friedan wrote in The Feminine Mystique Dell,by the time my mother was ready to enter what Julia always called The Great World, it had narrowed to one role and one role alone, that of wife and mother. But I know where I got the idea that more was possible. I learned it from books, and none more than from the stories about Betsy, Tacy, and Tib. Because the most important thing about Betsy Ray is that she has a profound sense of confidence and her own worth. Of course, if this had been wrapped in a sanctimonious, plaster saint package, Betsy would have been—perish the thought—Elsie Dinsmore, the perfect, boring little girl of popular fiction who Betsy herself once mocks. But we did read them, many of us, for so many reasons: because Maud Hart Lovelace had a real gift for adapting the prose to the appropriate age level, Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding the themes, too; because we fell in love, not only with Betsy but with Tacy and Tib and all the others, and wanted to know from year to year what was happening to them; because of Magic Wavers and Sunday night sandwiches and smoky coffee brewed out of doors and all the other little ordinary things that, in some fashion, became our ordinary things. And because they were just like us. For many years those goals and aspirations were truncated by one simple fact: our sex. Everything around us reflected that, from who sat on the Supreme Court, to who listened to our chests when we were sick, to who oversaw services when we went to church on Sunday. But from time to time we encountered a teacher, or a parent, or even a book that told us that we should let our ambitions fly, that we should believe in ourselves, that the only limits we should put on what we tried for were the limits of our desires and our talents. When I told people I was going to give this speech, most had never heard of Betsy-Tacy, and I had to describe them as a series of books for girls. But they were so much more than that to one little girl who grew up to be a woman writer and who, perhaps, learned that she could by the example given inside these books. Behind her was a barnlike structure, crowded with carriages, automobiles, baggage carts, and milling distracted passengers. Before her loomed the great bulk of the liner. Thirteen thousand tons of it, according to the advertisements over which she had pored—far, far back in Minnesota. It had layers of decks, a smokestack in the center, and tall masts flying flags. She could smell the waters of Boston Harbor— cold, salty, fishy—into which she would presently be sailing. Not from cold, for she wore furs over her long tight coat and carried a muff. Fur trimmed, too, was her hat. She shivered because she was shaky inside, fearful and bewildered. A porter had seized her suit cases, and he strode beside her shoulder. But he was a stranger, like the throngs of people all around her. And they all seemed to be in groups—sociable, laughing, chattering groups. Of course, Betsy, too, would be with someone else shortly. Her father and mother had seen to that. But at her first meeting with them, this morning at the Parker House, she had managed to convey the impression that their chaperonage was extremely nominal. And when they had suggested that she join them for some travel later, she had been purposefully vague. She and Tacy had planned trips through all the long years of their friendship. Celeste and Hortense, they had christened their maids…imaginary ones, of course. For Tacy had faithlessly married. Julia was married too. It was January now, A singer, she had married a flutist, and they planned to pursue their careers together. But Betsy was in no mood to Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding fair. The confusion on deck was more subtly terrifying even than the tumult below. The well-dressed men, the women with corsage bouquets blooming on their shoulders, seemed so assured, so gaily sufficient to themselves and Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding another, so completely indifferent to the great adventure of one Betsy Ray, aged twenty-one, from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The porter turned her over to a uniformed steward. She was taken below decks, along labyrinthine corridors, carpeted, smelling of the sea, to her stateroom, Number Number 52! They had selected it back in Minneapolis. There it was, the porthole! And the room was a small white affair with a washstand and two bunks, one above the other. Miss Wilson would have the lower one. The steward put her bags on it, and she tipped him, trying to act casual. Back on deck, she secured a steamer chair—Julia had told her that was the first thing to do. But what about her ticket? She found the office of the Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding. He spoke with an Irish inflection and he looked the Irishman, too…smooth black hair with a touch of gray at the temples, blue eyes with a light in Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding, a dimple in his Betsy and the Great World and Betsys Wedding. Betsy felt her color rising. How maddening to blush before his gay assurance! This fashionable pose became her, for she was very slender. Some girls had to wear special corsets to get the debutante slouch. She was glad her fur boa was tossed lightly over her shoulder. Other author's books: The Betsy-Tacy Treasury. Add comment.