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Straggling Extracts 1848.pdf
The narrator, "Miss S.", describes her travels in Switzerland with two young female companions, and their encounter with a mysterious English gentleman with a troubled past.

LIFE IS SWEET rev2.pdf
The narrator reflects on the vicissitudes of life and moralizes about the benefits of suffering and giving to others.

Crescent Beach_rev.pdf
The narrator tells a story about her vacation on a beach, focusing on a little girl’s relationship with her young mother and the mother’s adultery.

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.

Might versus Right.pdf
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…

Magnetism Among the Shakers pdf.pdf
A sketch in which the speaker relates a conversation between an older male Shaker and his sister about Shaker beliefs and practices.

Story about a young woman's passionate first love, her parents' intervention, and her subsequent happy marriage to another man.
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