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A Vision
The narrator has a vision of two female spirits that represent the ideal of a natural and healthy life.
A Huguenot Family
A story that chronicles the trials of the d’Argile family during the Catholic persecution of the Huguenots—French Protestants—in 1672 under the reign of the “Sun King,” Louis XIV.
Tags: 1842, Catholic, childbirth, crucifix, Edict of Nantes, emigration, France, Godey's Lady's Book, heretic, Historical fiction, Huguenot, Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, Madame de Sevigne, Madame Montespan, martyrs, midwife, mother, New World, persecution, physician, Poitu, Prison, prison escape, Protestant, Sarah Josepha Hale, servants, sons, Tales and Sketches - Second Series
"The Irish Girl"
A young Irish servant is in love with a man whose father will not let him marry her because she is a “Paddy girl.” The young woman drowns, shortly after learning of her beloved's decision to marry a non-Irish woman. Her brother vows revenge, but…
Tags: 1842, Becket, Catholics, crucifix, drowning, God, Immigrants, Irish, orphan, Pittsfield, prejudice, Protestants, Providence, railroad, religion, servant, shanty, snow, The United States Democratic Review, widow