Before she became famous as a novelist, Grace Livingston Hill wrote short stories for many publications. Over the years, many of these stories have been collected and published in book form. The earliest of these, Katharine’s Yesterday, was one of the first Grace Livingston Hill books ever published.
J. B. Lippincott Company published a series of small Grace Livingston Hill “Pamphlets” in the 1930’s. Each contained a single short story and they were published in addition to Grace’s regular novels. They were published in both hardback and softback editions and are relatively rare. We list them as books in our GLH book lists, since they were produced individually. However, these short stories appear in many of the short story collections published in later years. Since they were published during the Great Depression, we suspect they served a dual purpose—they were available to purchase when Grace spoke at a church or event, but they would have also made it possible for readers whose budget was tight to have a new GLH read. Inside the jacket of one of these treasures (a hardback edition) is the price of the book—50¢.
After Grace’s death in 1947, her daughters published a collection entitled, Miss Lavinia’s Call. Since then, many of those stories and quite a few others have been collected, published, and re-published for eager Grace Livingston Hill readers to enjoy