La Grange was incorporated in 1879, and La Grange Park in 1892. Both areas were farmland before being developed as residential communities. Today, a large section of La Grange is a National Register Historic District, and this area is dominated by large Victorian and early-twentieth-century homes. In fact, the most striking feature of La Grange and La Grange Park is the well-preserved state of their vintage housing. Both villages have maintained a small-town look and feel that has attracted many families to the area. During World War I, the Marx Brothers, in order to avoid military service, bought a farm just south of the La Grange village limits. A biography of Groucho includes some humorous recollections of life on that farm. La Grange is also lucky enough to be home to three Frank Lloyd Wright houses. Outside of these well-known attributes of La Grange and La Grange Park, the authors also explore the history of the early settlers of the area and show how the residents lived, worked, played, worshiped, and attended school in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the use of over 200 vintage photographs from the La Grange Area Historical Society, individual residents, and community organizations, RoseAnna and Robert Mueller offer a glimpse of La Grange’s old-fashioned streets that have made La Grange a popular setting for local television commercials and even the odd Hollywood film.

La Grange and La Grange Park, Illinois (Images of America: Illinois)

Arts & Photography

Mueller, RoseAnna

Mueller, Robert

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

La Grange was incorporated in 1879, and La Grange Park in 1892. Both areas were farmland before being developed as residential communities. Today, a large section of La Grange is a National Register Historic District, and this area is dominated by large Victorian and early-twentieth-century homes. In fact, the most striking feature of La Grange and La Grange Park is the well-preserved state of their vintage housing. Both villages have maintained a small-town look and feel that has attracted many families to the area. During World War I, the Marx Brothers, in order to avoid military service, bought a farm just south of the La Grange village limits. A biography of Groucho includes some humorous recollections of life on that farm. La Grange is also lucky enough to be home to three Frank Lloyd Wright houses. Outside of these well-known attributes of La Grange and La Grange Park, the authors also explore the history of the early settlers of the area and show how the residents lived, worked, played, worshiped, and attended school in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the use of over 200 vintage photographs from the La Grange Area Historical Society, individual residents, and community organizations, RoseAnna and Robert Mueller offer a glimpse of La Grange's old-fashioned streets that have made La Grange a popular setting for local television commercials and even the odd Hollywood film.

La Grange and La Grange Park, Illinois

Biographies & Memoirs

Mueller, Capt. Robert

MUELLER, ROSS

Historical

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Michigan City

History

Mueller, Rosaanna

Americas

Product Description 
The Divine Recluse, first published in 1938 and now translated into English for the first time, is a modernist historical novel set in Antigua, Guatemala, in the 1620s. In Soto Hall's account, Antigua is the quintessential periphery, always mindful of the "city and court" of Madrid and of other, more established, cities of the empire. Part anti-colonial satire, part historical romance, and part pastiche of 17th-century Spanish novels, The Divine Recluse focuses on the lives of the inhabitants of a colonial town, who see the world as a game of Spanish shadows projected on a canvas brought from Mexico City or Lima.\nSoto Hall's novel is based on the mysterious history of a nun who has fascinated several writers. 
Since very little was really known about her, the author concentrated on imagining the world around her, sprinkling the tale with enigmatic and nefarious characters, bringing to light the many conflicts between Church and state in Antigua at the time. 
The known fragments of Sor Juana's life served as a catalyst to expose corruption and in-fighting in the various religious orders of the Church in Guatemala and to provide entertaining background material for a colorful historical novel set in Antigua. 
﻿For more than five decades, Máximo Soto Hall (1871-1944) was a leading anti-imperialist writer and journalist in Central America. Born in Guatemala, he lived and published in Spain, France, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Honduras, Argentina and Chile. His other major novels include El Problema (1899) and La Sombra de la Casa Blanca (1927). 
Juana de Maldonado y Paz (1598-1666), also known as Juana de la Concepción, was a Guatemalan poet and nun. 
RoseAnna Mueller, Ph.D., Emerita at Columbia College Chicago, is the author Teresa de la Parra: A Literary Life (2012). In 2016, she translated Ana Isabel: A Respectable Girl by Antonia Palacios. 
 About the Author 
Máximo Soto Hall, (1871-1944), born in Guatemala City, is one of the most important Guatemalan writers of the twentieth century.

The Divine Recluse (Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Soto Hall, M

United States

Universitas Press

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