1. Her heroines are full of grace and know how to hold their tongues in most all situations. 2. Most of her stories involve a trip to Scotland where good food, picnics, tea, wild landscape, and a doting elderly lady bring about revitalization to a tired woman. 3. She accurately portrays difficult people. And then she shows how they are pitiable and need love. 4. She understands how the presence of children, an absence of housemaids, and no vacations make a mother exhausted. 5. She is able to create women who talk abundantly and sometimes in silly ways, but are still kind, unselfish, and likable. 6. She shows how WWII affected the everyday life of the simple people of England who stayed home and continued trying to have regular meals. 7. The romances in her stories don’t dominate her pages. They take a backseat to the comings and goings of everyday life. 8. She inspires me to describe the simple things in life like the style of my furniture, the types of clo