Project Gutenberg 2025-07-13 Public domain in the USA. 294 Blanchard, Amy Ella 1856 1926 Blanchard, Amy E. (Amy Ella) Aunt Ella Ella, Aunt Blanchard, Amy E Bridgman, L. J. (Lewis Jesse) 1857 1931 Bridgman, Lewis Jesse Bridgeman, Lewis Jesse 10014648 The glad lady $aBoston :$bDana Estes & Company, $c1910. Carol Brown, Aaron Adrignola and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "The glad lady" by Amy Ella Blanchard is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in northern Spain, it follows spirited American Patience “Patty” Blake, her sister Doña Martina, and their Spanish family and friends as they spend a summer in Asturias. Through fiestas, village customs, seaside rambles, and visits to ancient houses, the tale mixes travel color, gentle romance, and cross‑cultural comedy—especially around Patty’s flirtatious banter with Don Tomás and a homesick American engineer, Robert Lisle. It promises a warm, picturesque story of manners, friendship, and light-hearted intrigue rather than high drama. At the start of the story, a small party gathers in San Sebastián: Dr. Juan Estradas and his American wife Martina, his brother Tomás, and Martina’s sister Patty with her schoolmate Paulette. Patty’s teasing charm and halting Spanish lead Tomás to dub her “the glad lady,” and the group moves on to a mountain town, where a clean but primitive inn, the lively plaza, and village routines set the scene. They visit a peasant weaver and a venerable old house, stroll to a cave-fringed beach, and lunch in style at Don Felipe’s antiquity-filled palacio, leaving with souvenir cups and later bouquets. A reserved traveler reappears as Robert Lisle, an American with Kentucky roots, who bonds with Patty over homesickness. The party then settles into the Estrada family home, and St. John’s Eve and Day bring local traditions: decking streams and the fountain with flowers, villagers bringing gifts—including a lamb from Perdita—and preparations for music and dancing as the community arrives singing a song in honor of Don Juan. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435017726456&view=1up&seq=9 20221125180740blanchard 1910 us Reading ease score: 81.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Americans -- Spain -- Fiction Spain -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Vacations -- Fiction PS Text Category: Romance Category: Novels Category: American Literature 438445 2025-07-30T08:25:19.074220 text/html 412466 2025-07-13T13:53:19 text/html 2083960 2025-07-30T08:25:27.689234 application/epub+zip 2083145 2025-07-30T08:25:21.260198 application/epub+zip 336858 2025-07-30T08:25:19.942214 application/epub+zip 2747911 2025-07-30T08:25:32.146190 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2710508 2025-07-30T08:25:26.698210 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 392393 2025-07-30T08:25:17.747256 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 372503 2025-07-13T13:53:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15451 2025-07-30T08:25:32.320158 application/rdf+xml 22738 2025-07-30T08:25:20.435212 image/jpeg 3331 2025-07-30T08:25:20.207208 image/jpeg 3147396 2025-07-30T08:25:19.151210 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia