Francena h arnold biography

Francena Harriet Arnold (née Long; 1888 – 1972) was a.
FRANCENA H. ARNOLD was born in 1888 and grew up on a farm in Jacksonville, IL. She married Frank Mitchell Arnold on August 29, 1912 and they.
Francena Harriet Arnold was a 20th-century novelist, author of the Christian fiction classic Not My Will and nine other books.

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Not My Will: How Much Will Surrender Cost?
May 4, 2021
Normally if I rate a book years after I read it, I give it a rating based on my enjoyment at the time of reading, rather than my opinion now. Sometimes this means I rate a book quite highly, when now I wouldn't touch it. With Not My Will, I'm going to break my own rule.
I received Not My Will as a gift through my church, either at Christmas time, or for a Sunday School Anniversary (weren't they nice people!). Not having much money to purchase books, any book I did own was re-read. A lot. So, I have to say I read Not My Will many many times as a teen. My rating at the time would have been 3 or 4 stars, as even though I had no real similarity to the main character, the story was enjoyable, and the characters complex and likeable.
Sometime in the late noughties, I decided I'd give the book another re-read. It had been stored away for a number of years, and I was curious to read it again and discover what kind of influence it might have had on my growth as a teenager, and as a Christian. Considering the volume of times I read it,
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There are so many different authors that I like. Some are modern, many are not. Some have only written a few books while others have written almost a hundred. There are authors who write just one genre, and there are others who write different genres. But no matter what they write, they all have a unique style, a certain way with words that no other author has.
Come with me for another Closer Look at an author who only wrote 10 books but one became a best seller. We’ll look at her style, and her characters, her descriptions and plots, and perhaps you’ll discover a new author you’d like to try.
FRANCENA H. ARNOLD was born in 1888 and grew up on a farm in Jacksonville, IL. She married Frank Mitchell Arnold on August 29, 1912 and they moved to Chicago where Francena would spend nearly all the rest of her life as a schoolteacher and mother of four. She only wrote 10 books, but her first one, which was written “just for the eyes of the family” ended up becoming a best seller. Francena died in 1972 at the age of 84. Her books are still releva