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In 'The Heart of Arethusa,' Frances Barton Fox weaves a compelling narrative that artfully combines the intricacies of human emotion with the societal norms of her time. The novel, presented in its resplendent form by DigiCat Publishing, is attentively reconstructed to preserve the author's original prose and narrative charm. With its classical undertones and rich, descriptive language, the work stands as an exemplar of early 20th-century literature. Set against the backdrop of societal expectations and personal longing, the book delves deeply into themes of love, identity, and the quest for self-realization within the framework of its era's literary traditions. Frances Barton Fox, a scribe ...
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Excerpt from Arethusa Hall: A Memorial Well, then, to begin. My first breath was inhaled from the pure air Of the hills Of Norwich, Massachusetts, since called Huntington. This was on the thirteenth Of October, 1802. That region is to me a beautiful one. All the towns around are com posed Of hills, thrown up in a variety of forms, Often with deep gorges between them. Their elevations afford extensive views. The sun-risings and sun-settings are from distant horizons; the play of light and shade upon the hill-sides, in varying sunshine and cloud, with the green, quiet vales and hamlets between, together with here and there a rippling brook or larger stream; bowlders scattered here and there, a...
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an encroaching market culture. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published writings by women in this society, Catherine E. Kelly describes their attempts to make sense of the changes in their world by elaborating values connected to rural life. In her hands, the narratives reveal the dramatic ways female lives were reshaped during the antebellum period and the women's own contribution to those developments. Equally important, she demonstrates how these writings afford a fuller understanding of the capitalist transformation o...
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.