LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 7 July 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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The Shape of Sunday - the Biography of Lloyd C. Douglas

Pauline Das, Ph.D.

The Shape of Sunday: A Continuation of Douglas’ Autobiography

The Shape of Sunday, the Biography of Lloyd C. Douglas was written by his two daughters, Virginia Douglas Dawson and Bettina Douglas Wilson. It was published by Houghton Mifflin Co., London, in 1953, a year after Douglas? death.It includes intimate details of his family background, interesting accounts of his work as a minister in various towns in America and Canada and gives us an insight into his writing career. The book lets us peep into how his novels were born, giving us a better understanding of his novels. Douglas himself wrote his autobiography, Time to Remember, his last work. But he died the following year in 1951, leaving his autobiography incomplete. The Shape of Sunday written in 1952 is therefore a continuation of Douglas? life story. In Time to Remember Douglas looks back with fond memories his past life. Though he resents the rigid way he was brought up, there is appreciation and understanding for his parents? ways.

Lloyd Cassell Douglas: Early Life

Lloyd Cassell Douglas was born in 1877 in Columbia City, Indiana, the son of Alexander Jacson Douglas, a Lutheran clergyman, and Sarah Jane (Cassel) Douglas. He grew up along the creek bottom of Indiana. His boyhood had a profound effect on his attitude toward life. He was educated as a minister at Wittenberg Seminary in Springfield, Ohio. His father promised to bring him up as a pastor. His writing career began as a student in 1900, when he wrote „A History of a Class of 1900?. After his ordination, he served as pastor in North Manchester, Indiana, in 1903 and he was a „good shepherd? to his congregation. In those days the pastors were looked upon as the actual representatives of God on earth. He was all the time preoccupied with the duties and attitude of a pastor. He started making a scrap book which contained the newspaper clippings that spoke of him as a preacher. In 1904, he married Bessie Porch, a minister's daughter.

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Pauline Das, Ph.D.
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Karunya University
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