Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644Goodwin, Maud Wilder
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Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644
Goodwin, Maud Wilder
Maryland -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
The Scene is in part Virginia, and in part the Court of Charles the
Second. The historical basis of the romance is the episode known as
"Bacon's Rebellion," but the author has woven into it a charming love
story, and given to the whole narrative much dramatic interest.
A charming story.... Its fidelity to the conditions prevailing in the
Virginia colony at the time is carefully sustained.--_The Review of
Reviews._
It is no less a success as a literary monument than as a piece of most
entertaining fiction. Its love notes are pure and sweet, and withal
inspiring. Almost any scene picked out at random is a quotable instance
of genuine ability.--_Boston Herald._
As sweet and pure a bit of fiction as often comes in the reader's
way.--_Detroit Free Press._
A beautiful little story, sweet and inspiring, not less clever than
true.--_New York Times._
Mrs. Goodwin invests her romance with a crispness and freshness that
set it far above the ordinary novel, wherein facts and fiction are
thrown together.--_Chicago Post._
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FLINT By MAUD WILDER GOODWIN.
16mo. Decorated cloth. $1.25.
Mrs. Goodwin is at her best in dialogue, and some very spirited
conversations are distributed through the book.--_Providence Journal._
The story abounds in bright, almost epigrammatic sayings and sparkling
flashes of merriment and wit, and altogether is as sweet and pure a
piece of fiction as we have seen for many a day.--_Detroit Free Press._
Miss Wilkins herself could not have drawn the inn-keeper and "general
grocer" Marsden more truthfully or artistically. Winifred is a lovely
creation--as charming a piece of womankind as we have encountered for
some time.--_Buffalo Commercial._
A quick, sympathetic study of human nature and those bonds of interest
which unite human souls.--_Boston Herald._
Sententious, witty sayings appear on almost every page.--_Chicago
Journal._
=LITTLE. BROWN, AND COMPANY=
=Publishers · 254 Washington Street, Boston=
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_Romances of Colonial Virginia_
By MAUD WILDER GOODWIN. Illustrated Holiday Edition. 2 vols. 16mo.
Cloth, extra, gilt tops, put up in neat box, $3.00.
I. =The Head of a Hundred, in the Colony of Virgina, 1622=
By MAUD WILDER GOODWIN. Illustrated with five full-page photogravure
plates from drawings by Jessie Willcox Smith, Sophie B. Steel,
Charlotte Harding, and Winfield S. Lukens; four decorative headings
by Clyde O. De Land; and an ornamental titlepage by K. Pyle.
II. =White Aprons=
A Romance of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia, 1676. By MAUD WILDER
GOODWIN. Illustrated with five full-page photogravure plates from
drawings by A. McMakin, Clyde O. De Land, L. R. Dougherty, Margaret
F. Winner, and Violet Oakley; four decorative headings by Clyde O. De
Land; and an ornamental titlepage by K. Pyle.
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