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Title	:	The Children's Hour
Author	:	Lillian Hellman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Acting Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 75 pages
Published	:	1953 by Dramatists Play Service (first published 1934)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Classics. Theatre. Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer

The Children's Hour

Lillian Hellman

Paperback | Pages: 75 pages

Rating: 4 | 11567 Users | 186 Reviews

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This is a serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youngster starts a rumour about the two women, the rumour soon turns into a scandal. As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her story, which precipitates tragedy for the women. It is later discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but it is too late. Irreparable damage has been done.

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Original Title:	The Children's Hour
ISBN:	0822202050 (ISBN13: 9780822202059)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4 From 11567 Users | 186 Reviews

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This is a devastating account of women who own a school for girls and what happens when a spiteful child decides to tell tales. Brilliant play which has been filmed in various versions over the years. The original is always the best.

Exceptional.I first read The Childrens Hour in high school. I remember absolutely loathing Mary. Rereading it as an adult and having a better appreciation for the work and effort it takes to build things like a school and a career, my lack of sympathy towards Mary remains much the same. What disturbed me more on this read, though, were the adult characters. That they blindly follow Mary and see little wrong with destroying the lives of two women based on gossip is a cold and powerful message.In

This book brings back memories of what a bad girl I was in school. When I left I was very pissed off, I'd been expelled yet again (drunkenness from mixing rum with yoghurt for lunch, conducting the school choir quite literally behind the headmistress's back, cheating in exams - took me ages to get caught, I already had a job and a place in art college and my father wouldn't let me leave school) and I so wanted my own back.I went to an extremely academic girls' school where there was a very small

Wonderfully evil, and so much better, I believe, than Miller's play, The Crucible on the same theme. The movie version of Heller's play has held up well.

A tragic story of how an angry, malicious lie can lead to absolute, far-reaching destruction for many people. It reminded me of the storyline of Atonement (at least the movie: I haven't been able to get through the book yet). Rumors spread and listened to, acted upon, can have disastrous consequences, and letting children get spoiled and not making them take responsibility for their actions can be just as detrimental. 3/5

Lillian Hellman wrote this book in the 1930s. It deals with the issue of lesbianism and in its day was considered very risque' (so much so that some theater patrons walked out of the show when they realized it). Even though the story is defined by the character's reactions to the perceived scandal according to 1920s standards of decency, it still resonates truthfully with today's readers/audiences. I suppose this is sad really. 80 years later we are still judgmental of other people and capable

This book brings back memories of what a bad girl I was in school. When I left I was very pissed off, I'd been expelled yet again (drunkenness from mixing rum with yoghurt for lunch, conducting the school choir quite literally behind the headmistress's back, cheating in exams - took me ages to get caught, I already had a job and a place in art college and my father wouldn't let me leave school) and I so wanted my own back.I went to an extremely academic girls' school where there was a very small