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Bessie's Fortune
Paperback
Publisher: Bibliotech Press
Published: Jan 23 2025
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Great story, with a wide variety of characters. Interesting how they end up intermingling with each other, and how they deal with various misfortunes. Romance, jealousy, family secrets, tragedy, ocean voyages, fortunes won and loss, class distinctions, and more. Once again, I love how this author doesn't stop at the wedding bells, but carries us several years on into several of the characters' lives. (Julia)
About the author
Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 - October 6, 1907) was an American author who published 39 novels, as well as short stories. Her first novel sold 250,000 copies; and she had total sales of 2 million books in her lifetime, second only to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her books included: Tempest and Sunshine (1854), English Orphans (1855), Homestead on the Hillside (1855), Lena Rivers (1856), Meadow Brook (1857), Dora Deane (1858), Cousin Maude (1860), Marian Gray 186 , Hugh Worthington (1864), Cameron Vide (1867). Rose Mather (1868), Ethelyn's Mistake (1869), Edna Browning (1872), Mildred (1877), Forest House (1879), Daisy Thornton, Queenie Hetherton (1883), Christmas Stories (1884), Bessie's Fortune (1885). Gretchen (1887), Marguerite (1891).
Portraying domestic life in small-town and rural settings, she examined gender relationships, as well as those of class and race. She also dealt with slavery and the American Civil War with a strong sense of moral justice. Since the late 20th century, she has received fresh recognition and reappraisal, although her popular work was excluded from most 19th-century literary histories.
... Holmes died in 1907, at the age of 82, in Brockport. Her obituary was published a few days later in the Nation, reflecting her stature. Long excluded from literary histories of the nineteenth century written by men, the author was reappraised by scholars in the late 20th and early 21st century, who recognized her achievements and the value of her work. (wikipedia.org)
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