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The tale of Rosa Lee, from her earliest recollections of Meadow Brook, a small community located in western Massachusetts, to the beginning of her writing career, in publishing this story as her first novel.Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1858 New York edition.In this story of Meadow Brook there is, I am aware, nothing very startling or wonderful; but it has the merit, at least, of containing more truth than books of the same character usually possess. From this, however, the reader is not to infer that I have made myself the heroine; for though the early home, the childhood, and childish experience of “Rosa Lee” are mostly my own—while more than one whiskered young man will recognize the little girl of thirteen, at whom he once made faces from behind his desk as the “schoolma’am”—the similarity extends no further.The fickle Mr. Clayton and his haughty bride, the unfortunate Herbert, the disappointed Ada, the proud Southern planter, and the gentle, bright-haired Jessie, are intended to represent different varieties of American character, and are such as many of us have met in our intercourse with the world. For my portrayals of Georgia life, I am indebted to a fri

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Author

Mary Jane Holmes

Publisher

Gutenberg

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781355922735

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction