Alida; or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War.: Founded on FactComfield, Amelia Stratton
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Alida; or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War.: Founded on Fact
Comfield, Amelia Stratton
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction
Mrs. James Madison. Here quoted from _The American Magazine of
Useful and Entertaining Knowledge_; the article was printed in
other publications.
Some parts of this article refer to the period when James Madison
was Secretary of State under Jefferson.
Much of the article quotes from the chapter on Dolly Madison
in a longer work: American Academy of the Fine Arts (James Herring
and James Barton Longacre), _The National Portrait Gallery of
Distinguished Americans_ (no later than 1834).
_A sketch of the life and public services of William H. Harrison,
commander in chief of the North-western army during the War of 1812,
&c._ Many editions from 1835 and later.
Charles Phillips: Speech at Dinas Island on George Washington.
Widely reprinted; the version published in the author's Collected
Speeches is different from earlier published versions quoted here.
Lindley Murray: _The Power of Religion on the Mind_. First edition
1836; many later editions and reprints. Quotations from 1863 (the
only edition available to me).
Not a religious work but a collection of short biographies with
character description. Except for the article on Job, attributions
are too short to be certain; _Alida_ may have found similar
phrases in a different source.
Francis Smith Eastman: _A history of the state of New York ..._
First edition 1828; later edition (with reprints) 1831. Details of
wording identify the 1831 edition (or a later one) as the source.
_Fiction_
Daniel Jackson/Isaac Mitchell: _Alonzo and Melissa_. For details,
see Project Gutenberg e-text 28112. Written 1804 by Mitchell; first
book publication (pirated by Jackson) 1811, with many reprints.
Wording in _Alida_ does not consistently correspond to any of the
editions used for the _Alonzo and Melissa_ e-text. Quotations are
generally from 1811 except where a different edition matches the
wording more closely. [Abbreviated "A&M"]
By word count, _Alida_'s favorite source: chapters VII-XII
inclusive, much of the adjoining chapters VI and XIII, most of
XXXIII-XXXIV (the final two chapters), and many other passages of
varying length. See beginning of chapter VI for more information.
Regina Maria Roche: _The Children of the Abbey_. First published
1796, reprinted throughout the following century. Quotations from
1877.
Mrs. (Mary Martha) Sherwood:
_The Broken Hyacinth_; _The Lady of the Manor_.
_Alida_ may contain other quotations from this author; most
phrases are too short to be unambiguous. Mrs. Sherwood's fiction
has a strong religious element, and she seems the kind of author
Amelia Comfield would have liked.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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