First
“Audrey” had “The Right of Way”,
Then “David Harum” led,
With
“Eben Holden” holding fast
“Kate Bonnet’s” pretty head.
“The
Pines of Lory” threw a shade
Across “The Beaten Track”;
“The
Lady Paramount” declared
“The Leopard’s Spots” were black.
Then
“Uncle Terry” lit his light
“The Kentons” for to spy;
And
“Quincy Adams Sawyer” yelled
“We saw–yer ‘Dri and I’!”
Up
came young “Richard Carvel” with
“The Conqueror”, mouth and mouth;
“The
Claybornes” next in mad pursuit
Of Pretty “Dorothy South”.
“Patriot
and Tory”, side by side,
“Rockhaven” far away;
With
“Blennerhasset” neck and neck
With “Mlle. Fouchette”.
“The
Mississippi Bubble” burst
All over “Angelot”;
“The
Tory Lover” tried to find
“The Country God Forgot”.
Then
“Mary Garvin” with a dash
Went by “The Crimson Wing”,
And
led “Ben Hur”, “The Outlaw”, to
“The Presence of the King”.
“The
God of Things” took “Bread and Wine”
And “To the Rescue” came;
“Red
Pottage” broke at “Sunwich Post”
And “Wistons” quite the game.
“Policeman
Flynn”, “Within the Gates”,
Yelled loudly “Please Be Still!”
When
“Trilby”, “Kim” and all the rest
Got stuck on “Bylow Hill”.
May 11, 1902
"Mr. Marmaduke Haward goes abroad next month to be taught the newest, most genteel mode of squandering it. Audrey was just a young lady when she made his acquaintance. Her family, living in the Applachian Mountains near Lake Erie survived the Indian attack that killed the rest of her family. Mr. Howard decided he would provide for her future."
Charley Steele is an alcoholic (aww) Canadian (yay) lawyer (boo) who wears a monocle (?). A bar room brawl knocks his marbles so loose that he develops amnesia and goes missing. When Charley recovers his memory after seven months it is to find everyone thinks he's dead and have moved on with their lives (especially his wife). He decides to begin life anew with a different name and in a different location. He's persecuted for being an infidel by the Catholic French Canadians.
Harum was an inveterate horse-trader and considered engaging in the dubious practices long associated with this activity as morally justified by the expectation that similar practices would be employed by his adversary. In principle, he contended that this made horse-trading quite different from other lines of business, yet in practice most business dealings seemed to him to be a species of horse trading, justifying considerable deviation from conventional standards of probity. The fact that these sentiments were placed in the mouth of an elderly country banker -- on the face of it, a clear spokesman fortraditional values -- was particularly appealing in that it made these business ethics appear a reflection of the practices of shrewd businessmen through the ages rather than an indicator of moral degeneration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harum
Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eben Holden, "Uncle Eb" who transports him westward to save him from being sent to an orphanage. Through the Adirondacks and into the St. Lawrence valley they travel. Eben is kind, happy, and loves to tell stories to the youngster, many of which were to shape the life and ideals of Willie during his life. This story follows Willie as a young orphan, later as a journalist, and finally as a soldier who enlists in the army at the outset of the American Civil War. The book was immensely popular when it was published in 1900 and the years to follow, as the characters were all drawn from people who the author had known himself. (Summary by Roger Melin) https://librivox.org/eben-holden-a-tale-of-the-north-country-by-irving-bacheller/
This satirical novel tells the adventures of beautiful Kate, a fictional daughter of a planter turned pirate 'Major Stede Bonnet' who was known as The 'Gentleman Pirate.' Kate falls in love with her friend Dickory as they share adventures while trying to change the ways of her pirate father. http://www.publicbookshelf.com/romance/kate-bonnet/
A man and woman, neither old, are by a mischance left on an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where they are forced to abide for some months. Through a peculiar combination of circumstances they find a house ready prepared for their occupancy, and the story is then concerned with the fortunes and misfortunes of the two until they are rescued--if rescue it can be termed. http://manybooks.net/titles/mitchellja3060030600-8.html
Novel about Alabama & Battle of Mobile Bay with Admiral Farragut, James WINSTON, an Alabamian who was loyal to the Union (alluding to WINSTON COUNTY ALABAMA). The book ends with Mobile CSA soldiers returning home after the war, penniless and having to deal with Reconstruction
. http://www.globalauctionguide.com/massachusetts-auctions/antique-books-ephemera-xiii-s-198547.html
In the first decade of the twentieth century, the Countess de Sampaolo, heir to the throne of an Italian isle, is a ravishing beauty graced with wit, charm, and a fi erce independent streak. Knowing her ancestors to be usurpers, she decides to single-handedly restore the rightful count of Sampaolo: Anthony Craford, a young, cynical landowner exiled in rural England. Under an assumed name, she rents a house on his estate and sets a ''little scheme'' in motion... to make him fall in love with her. http://www.tower.com/lady-paramount-henry-harland-paperback/wapi/111815772
The Leopard's Spots is the first novel of Thomas Dixon's Ku Klux Klan trilogy that included The Clansman and The Traitor. In the novel Dixon offers an account of Reconstruction in which he portrays the villains as a former slave driver, Northern carpetbaggers and emancipated slaves; and heroes as members of the Ku Klux Klan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard's_Spots
Uncle Terry is the story of a lighthouse keeper who finds a child who was on a wrecked vessel. The story documents her life and her "actual" identity becomes an interesting mystery. Of course, the usual shyster types get involved making the tale a bit more interesting.
The Kenton family flees from Tuskingum, Ohio, to Europe seeking solace for daughter Ellen's broken heart. After experiencing foreign travel, urban living, and turn-of-the-century European mores, the family returns to a confined, but secure, life in their small village
his novel recounts the experiences of Quincy Adams Sawyer of Boston, the son of a millionaire and a graduate of Harvard College, who spends two years in the country town known as Mason’s Corner, where he finds many quaint country personages. Sawyer, while recuperating his health, enters into the life of the place and attends the singing-school, husking-bees, and surprise-parties with various village belles, finally falling in love with Miss Alice Pettengill, who develops into a talented poet and author. http://www.bartleby.com/library/readersdigest/1624.html
Ramon Bell’s father, who fought in the war for independence from Britain, teaches his son swordsmanship and national pride. When the second war against the British erupts in 1812, Ray and the Bell’s hired hand, Darius “D’ri” Olin, eagerly sign up. Before long, General Brown is trusting his most difficult assignments to the pair.
Ray and D’ri have more adventures during the short war than most people have in a lifetime. The action stops only long enough for Ray to fall in love with two French girls whose father has sent them to America to keep them from meeting undesirable young men in Paris.
Richard Carvel is a historical novel by the American novelist Winston Churchill. It was first published in 1899 and was exceptionally successful, selling around two million copies and making the author a rich man. The novel takes the form of the memoirs of an eighteenth-century gentleman, the Richard Carvel of the title, and runs to eight volumes. It is set partly in Maryland and partly in London, England, during the American revolutionary era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carvel
“being the true and romantic story of Alexander Hamilton”, by Gertrude Atherton (1902). The recorded facts of Hamilton’s career find their historical place in this “dramatized biography.”
The Claybornes are a proud and wealthy Virginia family, who do not all see their duty alike when the war breaks out, and two brothers find themselves on opposite sides in the conflict. This situation gives opportunity for many stirring incidents, which are made the most of, and are told with a freshness and vividness that go far to make up for their somewhat hackneyed nature. The most rousing moment comes when the hero runs the batteries at Vicksburg before Grant has taken the city. His boat takes fire, and he falls into the hands of the enemy through the arts of a beautiful Southern woman, turned spy. From here on the melodramatic element predominates. but it is of a dashing sort, and the story has no lack of vim and go throughout. The historical element plays little part, for though Grant and Sherman are occasionally introduced, they are little more than shadowy figures.
”A Love Story Of Virginia Just Before The War” George Cary Eggleston (1839-1911) was a popular Southern author. The Atlantic Monthly published a serialized version of his account of his time as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. http://www.bookadda.com/books/dorothy-south-love-story-virginia-george-cary-143442166x-9781434421661
”A Tale of Stirring Times and Sturdy Souls”
The Mississippi Bubble is a 1902 novel by American author Emerson Hough. It was Hough's first bestseller, and the fourth-best selling novel in the United States in 1902. The historical novel revolves around the story of John Law (1671-1729) and the "Mississippi Bubble", an economic bubble of speculative investment in the French colony of Louisiana.
Like James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy, The Tory Lover'” Sarah Orne Jewett's own rewriting of the American Revolution'” might be subtitled 'A Tale of the Neutral Ground.' Choosing as the basis of its diegesis one of the highly paradigmatic moments in American history, Jewett's historical romance not only challenges the revolutionary logics of 'us versus them,' it also questions the contemporary rise of 'True Americanism' and its binary and essentialist logic that was to underlie the imperialistic turn at the end of the nineteenth century. Against the tide, The Tory Lover favors the neutral as its wavering point of anchorage, and rewrites the origins of the nation as an erotic intermingling of contraries rather than a battle of right and wrong. http://www.cairn-int.info/abstract-E_RFEA_118_0086--for-the-love-of-neutrality-the-tory-love.htm
The story is one of life on the cattle range and in the mining district of Arizona, and shows that the author has had more than a passing acquaintance with the "country God forgot." Her word paintings of the land of the range, the desert and the mountains are both forceful and vivid and give just the proper setting for the tragic tale she has to tell.
The motif of the book is found in the unnatural hatred of a. father for his son. The secret of this hatred is out at the end of the story in a dramatic climax, but not until it has worked its mission in holding the reader's interest at the highest pitch. http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19020713.2.153.23.1
Romantic novel set in late 19th century France, at the time of the Franco-Prussian War.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper & Brotherson November 12, 1880. Considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century",[1] it became a best-selling American novel.
The story recounts in descriptive detail the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional Jewishprince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur:_A_Tale_of_the_Christ
In this adventurous romance novel, Armstrong focuses on politics and the destruction of nature, with emphasis on topics such as urban sprawl and agriculture. He describes his frustration with people that value money over priceless land:
Money was urging the farmers to hurry with their clearing, to roll the forest farther back, and to widen the fields. Money was building the mills, and dragging the saws, and teaching the heavy stone burs to hum in a musical monotone as they poured out the stream of flour and meal. Money brought strangers in increasing numbers from out of the mysterious east to the transformation of the West (92-93).
The novel goes on to discuss deforestation:
The oak, which had answered axe strokes with dull defiance at first, had lifted its bass notes to a piping treble as the blades on the opposite sides approached its heart; and before the final citadel was taken, the great tree shivered, then slowly turned, and surrendering, swept with a mighty sound of branches rushing through the air, of timber rending, and a sullen impact on the stubborn ground (19-20 .
In this novel, Armstrong's feeling of anguish over the destruction of the forests and nature surrounding his hometown and throughout Indiana are obvious.
”A Novel of Modern Egypt”
A classic novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, whose work explored the contrast in values between Americans and Europeans.
The satirical Red Pottage (1899) was a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic and is reprinted occasionally. It satirizes religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life, and was denounced from a London pulpit as immoral. It was equally sensational because it "explored the issues of female sexuality and vocation, recurring topics in late-Victorian debates about the New Women." Despite the book's great success, however, the author received little money for it because she had sold the copyright.
Better known for his short stories, the author W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) wrote novels as well. One of these, AT SUNWICH PORT, published in 1902, uses Sandwich as the inspiration for 'the ancient port of Sunwich'. It is a story of sea captains, of rivalry and romance, and opens with a description of the town church which still shares many features with St Peter's today.
‘It is a fine church, and Sunwich is proud of it. The tall grey tower is a landmark at sea, but from the narrow streets of the little town itself it has a disquieting appearance of rising suddenly above the roofs huddled beneath it for the purpose of displaying a black-faced clock with gilt numerals whose mellow chimes have recorded the passing hours for many generations of Sunwich men.' http://www.whitecliffscountry.org.uk/See-Do/Ideas-and-Inspiration/Literary-Connections/Literary-Connections---Sandwich.aspx
“Robin Yaldwyn” is a ne’er-do-well painter in the book Wistons (1902), written by “Miles Amber.” “Miles Amber” was the pseudonym of Ellen Cobden Sickert, wife of the painter Walter Sickert, and Wistons is a roman-à-clef about how bad Walter Sickert, who Robin Yaldwyn is an analogue of, treated his wife. Sickert, of course, was a part of the Jack the Ripper investigation.
http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Jess%20Nevins/League%20of%20Extraordinary%20Gentlemen%203/Notes%20on%20League%20of%20Extraordinary%20Gentlemen%20V3%201.html http://books.google.com/books?id=HxINAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=wistons#v=onepage&q=wistons&f=false
Patrolman Barney Flynn of the Chicago Police Force is everyman's idea of what a policeman ought to be. He is honest, resourceful, conscientious, and practical. To be sure, he makes fewer arrests than his fellow policemen, saying that "'T is a nuisance to be dhraggin' ye-er man to th' station an' thin be afther gettin' into coort th' nex' day to prosy-cute him. Sind him home whin ye can ... 'T is easy done if he have money in his pocket to pay f'r th' cab." But his Irish temper rises when faced with adversity, as in the case of two boys who harass him and flaunt their lawlessness before the court. When the judge decides to give them another chance rather than start them on their downward path, "Sta-art thim down by sindin' thim up, " becomes Policeman Flynn's motto, and eventually he is able to catch the two with stolen goods and get a conviction. Based on the career of Andrew Rowan of the Chicago Police Department's Central Detail, Policeman Flynn is the story of an officer with a touch of compassion, a feeling for humanity, and a ready wit. Although distinctly reminiscent of Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley, Officer Flynn is a delightful individual in his own right, who not only philosophizes as well as his saloon keeper counterpart, but manages to live by his homespun practical philosophy. http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/illinois/chap3-ef.htm
The Gates Ajar (1868), her first novel, a realistic study of life after death, which was widely read and was translated into several European languages. Her Beyond the Gates (1883), The Gates Between (1887) and Within the Gates (1901) are in the same vein.
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Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Published serially in Harper's Monthly in 1894, it was published in book form in 1895 and sold 200,000 copies in the United States alone. Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris. Though it features the stories of two English artists and a Scottish artist, one of the most memorable characters is Svengali, a Jewish rogue, masterful musician and hypnotist
Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901. The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third, probably in the period 1893 to 1898. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(novel)
Set in a small and quaint New England town in the late nineteenth century, Bylow Hill tells of the complex web of relationships between a number of inhabitants.
The focus is on two families in particular—the Byingtons and the Winslows. The young people of these families, including Ruth and Leonard Byington and Arthur and Godfrey Winslow, must all face the realities of love, loyalty, and loss. Isabel Morrow, a winsome maiden, is pursued by both Leonard and Arthur and eventually marries the latter, an up-and-coming clergyman. The whole town believes their life must be flawless, but Isabel’s contentment and devotion are seriously challenged when Arthur’s mental state dangerously falters.
George W. Cable strikes a personal chord with his touching writing style. Bylow Hill artfully expresses the impermanence of happiness and seeming perfection. Tragedy and misfortune lurk even below majestic elms and in harmonious homes, next to lovely frozen rivers and behind picturesque New England charm. http://www.pelicanpub.com/proddetail.php?prod=1565549724#.VU5fjvmbzIU
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