{"id":35896,"date":"2026-11-02T13:23:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35896"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:24:28","slug":"book-report-the-unsinkable-mrs-brown-by-caroline-bancroft-1957-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/02\/book-report-the-unsinkable-mrs-brown-by-caroline-bancroft-1957-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <em>The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown<\/em> by Caroline Bancroft (1957, 1963)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/theunsinkablemrsbrown.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I must have gotten this book in a bundle of chapbooks from a Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale before I bothered to enumerate the chapbooks in the bundles.  So it&#8217;s been floating on my to-read stacks for some time, and that time apparently was this interim where my lower level is tented, I am perpetually agitated, and I cannot focus on reading longer books.  So, as I have been the last week or so, I am focusing on the shorter books in my stacks.  And I have plenty, although I have plentier thicker books, and reading thin books does not make room for me to tidy up the stacks.<\/p>\n<p>So: This is a short (~45 pages) biography of Margaret Tobin Brown.  Born in Hannibal, Missouri, she married a man who made a bundle in the Colorado oil boom, and although she really, really tried to break into high society in Denver, they rebuffed her.  She kinda separated from the husband, traveled a bunch, survived the sinking of the Titanic, and by this grace of God became something of a cult hero, especially after <em>A Night To Remember<\/em> came out and especiallier after <em>The Unsinkable Molly Brown<\/em> came out.  Afterwards, she was allowed into the society she craved although probably more as a pet than a member in good standing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and she was called <em>Maggie<\/em> by those who knew her, not <em>Molly<\/em>; the author says there&#8217;s a class distinction, where high class women named Margaret get <em>Molly<\/em>, but I&#8217;m not convinced that&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>So: Interesting, and better than learning the story by sitting through a musical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must have gotten this book in a bundle of chapbooks from a Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale before I bothered to enumerate the chapbooks in the bundles. So it&#8217;s been floating on my to-read stacks for some time, and that time apparently was this interim where my lower level is tented, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35897,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35896\/revisions\/35897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}