Miranda particularly dislikes Rebecca’s dead father and insults his memory in front of the child. But she soon starts daydreaming and imagining new worlds and beautiful vistas in nature.Īunt Miranda has no use for such trifling and foolish ideas and tries to make Rebecca act like a hard-working young lady, changing her fanciful disposition to that of cold New England practicality. Rebecca, remembering her mother’s admonitions to be well mannered and behaved in front of the two elderly ladies, tries to make a pleasant appearance. The driver stops the stagecoach near a brick house belonging to Rebecca’s two aunts in the town of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca is excited about the new world opening before her but wonders if the aunts will like her. Her second daughter Rebecca, a dreamy visionary, names the broken-down homestead Sunnybrook Farm.ĭue to her financial destitution, Aurelia sends Rebecca to live with the aunts and get an education.
Their sister, Aurelia Randall, now widowed, has seven children and struggles to keep her family out of poverty. The elderly sisters have always lived an isolated, peaceful life. In children’s literature, one such book is “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” Written by Kate Douglas Wiggin in 1903, readers meet 11-year-old Rebecca Rowenna Randall on her journey to live with two spinster aunts, Miss Miranda and Miss Jane Sawyer. Something in the story speaks to generation after generation because the books address enduring values that enrich human existence. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 182 pages, 1903, Grades 5-7.Ĭlassic literature stands the test of time because of its timelessness.
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