Heart Language

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword by Charles H. Glatfelter

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Sketch of Elsie Singmaster

Selected Pennsylvania German Short Stories by Elsie Singmaster

Big Thursday

The Vacillation of Benjamin Gaumer

The County Seat

The Old Régime

The Eternal Feminine

The Squire

The Belsnickel

The Suffrage in Millerstown

Zion Church

A Sound in the Night

The Courier of the Czar

The Amishman

Frau Nolte

Wildfire

Settled Out of Court

Thanksgiving Is n’t Christmas

Bibliography of Elsie Singmaster’s Works

Index

“By repositioning Singmaster's stories within the context of women's history and the local-color genre, Susan Colestock Hill breathes new life and possibility into these stories for researchers interested in literature, religious culture and identity, gender issues, or Pennsylvania German heritage. . . . Hill's critical eye draws the whole collection together and clarifies why she chose these particular stories for republication. This book will be a welcome resource and will hopefully introduce Singmaster's work to a new generation of readers.”

—Denise D. Kettering, H-Net Reviews