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Romance in Real Life

An historical romance in two parts, focusing first on the Boston childhood of orphan Marie Reynolds/Angely (implied to be the long-lost daughter of a fictionalized Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur), and subsequently on Marie's mysterious meeting with…

Tags: 1777, 1787, 1827, 1839, adoption, Alexander Pope, ambassador, An Essay on Man -Epistle IV, Anna Matilda, As You Like It, Auld Robin Gray, boarding school, Boston, Catskills, class, Comte de Mosloy, constancy, Count Louis-Guillaume Otto, courtship, Death, Della Crusco, disguise, Dogs, Elizabeth Livingston, engagement, France, French, Friendship, General Henry Knox, guitar, Hannah, Hannah Cowley, Hudson River, Huguenot, Hymen, I Samuel 1, inn, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Jewsharp, Lady of Loretto, Le Misanthrope, letters, Letters from an American Farmer, Lisbon, locket, Lorenzo, Love, Love’s Labour Lost, marriage, Massachusetts, Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur, Moliére, Mothers, music, New York, nobility, Normandy, Orlando, Paris, portrait painter, Providence, Revolutionary War, Robert Livingston, Robert Merry, Romance, Samuel Daniel, Saxon, Shakespeare, shipwreck, sonnets, spy, Tales and Sketches (First Series), Tauconnuc, The Complaint of Rosamund, The Garland, The Legendary, United States, Xantippes

The Beauty of Soninberg. A Letter from Wiesbaden.

The narrator writes a letter describing her travels in Germany, and recounts a love story about a beautiful young woman in the town of Soninberg.

Who, and What, Has Not Failed

The narrator reflects on responses to the US financial crisis of 1837, focusing on a family whose daughter is about to be married, and offers an alternative to panic and despair.

Tags: "L' Aurora", 1837, bankruptcy, books, children, cholera, Ellen Tree, fidelity, financial crisis, Guido Reni, Hoboken, kindness, Love, marriage, Nature, New York, New-Yorker, Panic of 1837, Paris, servants, speculation, The Metropolitan

"Cacoethes Scribendi"

A young woman is embarrassed when her writing is published by her family without her knowledge.

Tags: annuals, art, authorship, blue stocking, Boston, Disraeli, domestic duties, genius, Ichabod Crane, James Crichton, marriage, music, New England, New Haven, New York, North American Review, piety, Shakespeare, Sheherazade, Tasso, The Tempest, Waverley

"Passages From a Journal at Rockaway"

A sketch that contrasts June in New York City with Rockaway Beach.

Tags: Beach, Charles Lamb, Charlotte Corday, City, Dante's Inferno, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Fry, God, Nature, New York, Rev. Thomas Parnell, Southern Literary Messenger, Spring, Summer, watering-places, William John Burchell

"Owasonook"

A widower is deceived by a Deacon into believing she has been left nothing. When she marries a man outside of the church she is threatened with excommunication.

Tags: Ann Radcliffe, bible, marriage, New York, Queen Anne, religion, Sartain's Union Magazine

"Might Versus Right"

A young woman from a wealthy family marries and her husband legally gains rights to all of her property. The husband's poor business management and drinking cause him to lose the money, and the wife must work to support the family. When the husband…

Tags: Louisiana, marriage, married women's property acts, Massachusetts, Missouri, Motherhood, New York, New York Married Women's Property Act 1848, Sartain's Union Magazine, temperance, temperance pledge, Tennessee, women's rights

"Mary Smith"

A young girl from a modest family is hurt by another young girl from a wealthy family.

Tags: Consumption, Country, Fall, Juvenile Miscellany, Nature, New York, religion, tears

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