It's important because if you want to know what the secret referred to in the book's title is, you're not going to get it here. I didn't know this until the end of the book. Most of her novels deal with the Southern United States during the post-American Civil War era.īefore you read this, you need to know that there's a sequel. It first appeared in serial form in the New York Ledger in 1859, and was serialized twice more (1868-69, 1883) before first appearing in book form in 1888. Her first novel, Retribution, a serial for the National Era, published in book form in 1846, was so well received that she gave up teaching and became a regular contributor to various periodicals, especially the New York Ledger. The bulk of her work appeared as a serial in Robert Bonner s The New York Ledger, which was widely read in the 1850s and 1860s. Some of her earliest works appeared in The National Era, the newspaper that printed Uncle Tom s Cabin. Southworth s first story, The Irish Refugee, was published in the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. She was probably the most widely read author of that era. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899) was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century.
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