Three Heroines of New England Romance: Their true stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice Brown — John Shaqi
Three Heroines of New England Romance: Their true stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice BrownBrown, Alice
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Three Heroines of New England Romance: Their true stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice Brown
Every one visits Plymouth, the home of Priscilla. There is little
need to dwell upon this place here. A Plymouth pilgrimage, if by sea,
is easy and pleasant. Of guide-books there is no lack, and all that
remains of the Puritan maiden’s time is readily found. Even Plymouth
Rock is carefully enclosed; and rightly, too, else it would long
since have been carried away in fragments. On the hill is the old
burying-ground, from which fine views may be had of the old town and
of the harbor where the “Mayflower” lay at anchor, the sweeping coast
here low in sandy dunes, now high in bolder bluffs. The electric car
is here also, which takes one the length of the town and far beyond,
passing the Memorial Hall, where are so many relics of old colony days.
Plymouth, indeed, is easily to be seen. It is the Mecca, to-day, of
many pilgrims. What has been done for Plymouth, I have tried to do for
the other old towns into whose histories are woven the lives of our
heroines. Many of these old houses will soon have passed away. Many
have disappeared within a few years past. Let us hope, however, that
the little now left to us will long remain, and especially may we hope
will be preserved all that serves to remind us of these Three Heroines
of New England Romance.
[Illustration: THE END]
FOOTNOTE:
[1] “Sir Charles Henry Frankland, or Boston in the Colonial Times.”
Elias Nason, M. A. Albany, N. Y.: J. Munsell.
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Transcriber’s Note: Repeated major section titles were removed. Varied
hyphenation was retained as printed. The list of illustrations and
the captions on the illustrations varied widely. This was retained.
The illustrations were moved to stop them interrupting the middle of
paragraphs so the page numbers in the list will often not match the
actual location of the illustration mentioned.
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