183. Emilie Loring — Uncharted Seas with Patti Bender
Get ready to fall hopelessly in love with Emilie Loring, a New England native whose prolific output of richly-detailed romance novels feature the sort of charming characters and snappy dialogue reminiscent of films like The Philadelphia Story and It Happened One Night. Loring’s 30 years of commercial success continued long after her death in 1950, prompting publishers to sell ghost-written “Emilie Loring” novels that continued to sell by the tens of millions. Having read each of Loring’s novels at least 50 times each, guest Patti Bender joins us this week to talk about the author’s captivating life and work as told in her 2023 biography Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing and Wisdom.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Hallmark movie Her Pen Pal
Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing and Wisdom by Patti Bender
George Melville Baker’s “Among the Breakers”
Uncharted Seas by Emilie Loring
The ghosts of Stone House in Blue Hill, Maine
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
Black Beauty: An Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell
Here Comes the Sun by Emilie Loring
Hilltops Clear by Emilie Loring
Give Me One Summer by Emilie Loring
Beckoning Trails by Emilie Loring
Fair Tomorrow by Emilie Loring
Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie