Maximiliana Sebastiane Horne

	Maximiliana Sebastiane Horne Maximiliana Sebastiane (Max) Horne is a major character in Madeleine L'Engle's novel ''A House Like a Lotus'' (1984, ). A friend of Sandy Murry, she befriends and mentors Polly O'Keefe. Major traits Max is a wealthy intellectual and a painter whose work hangs in museums and private collections. Although she was once married, Max has lived for more than 30 years in a happy lesbian relationship with neurosurgeon Dr. Ursula Heschel. Engaging and energetic, Max befriends and mentors Polly, and they become close friends despite the significant difference in their ages. Max is lean and elegant, with black hair and silver-grey eyes. She has a keen interest in a wide variety of subjects including anthropology, theology, and literature and is a lively conversationalist. In the course of her many travels throughout the world, Max was bitten on the eyelid during a trip to South America and contracted Netson's Disease, for which there is no cure. Character Max and her younger sister Minerva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle DStJ (; November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels: ''A Wind in the Door'', ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'', ''Many Waters'', and ''An Acceptable Time''. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science. Early life Madeleine L'Engle Camp was born in New York City on November 29, 1918, and named after her great-grandmother, Madeleine Margaret L'Engle, otherwise known as Mado. Her maternal grandfather was Florida banker Bion Barnett, co-founder of Barnett Bank in Jacksonville, Florida. Her mother, a pianist, was also named Madeleine: Madeleine Hall Barnett. Her father, Charles Wadsworth Camp, was a writer, critic, and foreign correspondent who, according to his daughter, suffered lung damage from mustard gas during World War I. L'Engle wrote her first story at age of five and began keeping a journal at age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	A House Like A Lotus ''A House Like a Lotus'' () is a 1984 young adult novel by Madeleine L'Engle. Its protagonist is sixteen-year-old Polly O'Keefe, whose friend and mentor, Maximiliana Horne, has sent her on a trip to Greece and Cyprus. As she travels, Polly must come to terms with a recent traumatic event involving Max. The history of Polly's relationship with Max is told in flashback over the course of the novel. The use of double quotes distinguishes the present, whereas single quotes indicate flashbacks from the past. Plot summary Polly begins narrating the novel just as she arrives in Greece. She expects to be picked up by her aunt and uncle but they were detained and will not arrive in Greece for a few days. Polly goes to her hotel and feels rather depressed about the current state of affairs. But her mood improves when she meets Zachary Gray at the hotel restaurant. He is quite interested in her and is attracted to her innocence. He offers to take her around Greece and show her the sigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sandy And Dennys Murry Madeleine L'Engle, an American novelist, diarist and poet, produced over twenty novels, beginning with '' The Small Rain'' (1945), and continuing into the 1990s with '' A Live Coal in the Sea'' (1996). Many of her fictional characters appeared in more than one novel, sometimes in more than one series of novels. Other major characters are the protagonists of a single title. This article provides information about L'Engle's most notable characters. In a family tree chart first published inside the front cover of ''Many Waters'' (1986, ), L'Engle divided her major characters into categories she called "chronos" and " kairos", two Greek terms for different concepts of time. The stories of the Austin family take place in a chronos environment, which L'Engle defined as "ordinary, wrist-watch, alarm-clock time.". These are presented in a primarily realistic framework, though occasionally with elements that might be regarded as science fiction. Kairos, the framework in which the stories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Polly O'Keefe The ''Time Quintet'' is a fantasy/science fiction series of five young adult novels written by Madeleine L'Engle. Publishing history The series originated with ''A Wrinkle in Time'', written from 1959 to 1960 and turned down by 26 publishers before Farrar, Straus and Giroux finally published it in 1962. ''A Wrinkle in Time'' won the Newbery Medal and has sold over 6 million copies. The sequel, ''A Wind in the Door'', takes place the following year but was published over a decade later, in 1973. ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'', set ten years after ''A Wrinkle in Time'', followed in 1978. The fourth title of the quintet, ''Many Waters'', was published in 1986, but takes place several years before ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet''. This is readily apparent from the fact that Sandy and Dennys Murry are in high school as of ''Many Waters'', but refer to their college studies at the time of ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet''; and from Meg's unmarried status as of ''Many Waters''. The final title in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	An Acceptable Time ''An Acceptable Time'' is a 1989 young adult science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the last of her books to feature Polyhymnia O'Keefe, better known as Poly (''The Arm of the Starfish'', '' Dragons in the Waters'') or Polly (''A House Like a Lotus'', ''An Acceptable Time''). Marketed as part of the author's Time Quintet, ''An Acceptable Time'' connects Polly's adventures with those of her parents, Meg Murry and Calvin O'Keefe, which take place a generation earlier. The book's title is taken from Psalm 69:13, "But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time." Plot summary Happy to be away from her large family for a while, Polly O'Keefe is spending the autumn with her maternal grandparents, Dr. Kate Murry and Dr. Alex Murry, getting a better education from them in science than she would have received at home. She is grieving the loss of her beloved friend and mentor, Maximiliana Sebastiane Horne. Soon, however, surprising things start to happen, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]