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Nine Years Since
Tags: 1847, blue stocking, Charleston, Christian love, filial piety, freed-woman, gambling, governess, Horace Walpole, Louis Philippe, Madame de Sevigne, married women, North, old maid, plantation, Rosinante, saint, self-sacrifice, ship wreck, slaves, South Carolina, teacher, The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, the Pulaski
New-Year's Day
New Year's Day
Tags: "Written In Friars Carse Hermitage", Birnam Woods, Christmas tree, daughter, Dutch, father, filial duty, forget-me-nots, German, gift giving, Immigrants, Macbeth, Montagues and Capulets, mother, New Year's Day, New York City, Robert Burns, Romeo and Juliet, self-sacrifice, servants, Siblings, step-mother, tenement, traditions, virtue, visiting, widow
Modern Chivalry
Tags: 1826, A Winter's Tale, Antigua, Atlantic Souvenir, Bacchus, British colonies, Canton, Cape May, Catholic, Chesapeake Bay, China, Cowes, cross-dressing, disguise, Dolph Heilegher, Don Juan Canto II, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Elk River, England, Gravesend, Haverstraw Bay, Henry IV Part I, Hermione, Historical fiction, Hong merchants, Hudson River, indenture, Isle of Wight, John Paul Jones (1747-1792), Lord Byron, Maryland, Oliver Goldsmith, Pasha, Perdita, Philadelphia, plantation, Pope, Redwood: A Tale, Revolutionary War, Rodomontade novels, Romance novels, sailing, sailors, sentimentality, servants, Shakespeare, shipwreck, Sir Oracle, Sir Toby Blech, Sir Walter Scott, slavery, St. Kitts, Storm, tears, Thames River, The Heart of Midlothian, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Washington Irving, West Indies
Matty Gore
Tags: "Despondency Corrected", 1839, 1840, bible, brothers, Buffalo, conversion, correspondence, daughters, Death, duty, Faith, farming, fathers, filial obedience, forgiveness, Frances Wright, frontier, God, housekeeping, illness, independence, lectures, letters, living in sin, Lydia Howard Sigourney, marriage, New York City, newspapers, parenthood, railroad, religion, robbery, suicide, The Religious Souvenir, William Wordsworth, women's rights
Mary Dyre
Tags: Boston, Boston Common, Catharine Evans, Constantinople, execution, inquisition, Jesuits, John Endicott, John Wilson, liberty of conscience, Madame Roland, Mahomet the Fourth, Malta, Marmaduke Stevenson, martyrs, Mary Dyre, Mary Fisher, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Oliver Cromwell, Pilgrims, Quakers, religious persecution, Religious Society of Friends, Rhode Island, Sarah Chevers, The Token, Voltaire, William Dyre, William Robinson, William Sewell
Marietza
Tags: 1840, Alexandria, captives, Chios, Christians, Constantinople, daughters, Death, Egypt, Englishmen, execution, Faith, girls, Good Samaritan, Greece, Greek Independence, Greek Orthodox, hostages, Houri, infidels, Jews, Juvenile fiction, London, marriage, massacre, Mohammed, Mothers, Muslims, Oriental, Ottoman Empire, Pacha, patriots, plague, Prophet, revolution, Romaika, Roman Catholic, Scios, Sir Walter Scott, Smyrna, sons, Stories for Young Persons, Turks, war, White Lady of Avenel