THREE HEROINES OF NEW ENGLAND ROMANCE [Illustration] [Illustration: “_with her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head_”] [Illustration] THREE HEROINES OF NEW ENGLAND ROMANCE [Illustration] THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 [Illustration] _Copyright, 1894,_ BY EDMUND H. GARRETT. University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. CONTENTS PRISCILLA 15 HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. AGNES SURRIAGE 63 ALICE BROWN. MARTHA HILTON 109 LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY. NOTES 137 EDMUND H. GARRETT. [Illustration] [Illustration] LIST OF DRAWINGS Martha Hilton. “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75