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Designed As A Bright And Shining Light, To Pierce The Fogs Of Error And Injustice That Surround Society And Josiah, And To Bring More Clearly To View The Path That Leads Straight On To Virtue And Happiness. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. ... Read more

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Recovers the buried reputation of one of America's most popular writers from 1873 to 1914.

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An engaging biographical look into the intriguing life of Marietta Holley
Marietta Holley: Life With "Josiah Allen's Wife" by Kate H. Winter (English Department Lecturer at the State University of New York at Albany) is an engaging biographical look into the intriguing life of Marietta Holley. This scholarly biographical and literary study deftly explores the historical interests of the popular writer Marietta Holley and many of the secrets that made her life and writing what it became. A very highly recommended read for students of literature, women's studies, and regional American cultural history.
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JOSIAH ALLENS WIFE SAMANTHA AT THE CENTENNIAL. DESIGNED AS A BRIGHT AND SHINING LIGHT, TO PIERCE THE FOGS OF ERROR AND INJUSTICE THAT SURROUND SOCIETY AND JOSIAH, AND TO BRING JIORE CLEARLY TO VIEW THE PAT THAT LEADS STRAIGHT ON TO VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS. -1878. - IN TllE CROWD. To MY JOSIAHS CHILDREN BY HIS FIRST WIFE THOMAS JEFFERSON AND TIRZAH ANN, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY ONE, WHO, ALTHOUGH A STEP-MOTHER, IS STILL AS AFFECTIONATE AND FRIENDLY TO EM AS CAN BE. The above ia the dedication I had lotted on had wrote all out and calculated to haw pleasing, very, to Josiah, to the children, and to myself. But come to think it over, I changed my mind. I thought they have friends, and eloquent tongues of their own, and happiness are well off, and haint sufferin for dedications, or any of the other comforts and necessaries of life. And so, the above is hereby null and void and this is what I now solemnly declare to be my last law- ful will and dedication of this book- To THOSE WHO HAVE NO ONE TO SPEAK FOR THEM THO.SE WHO ARE IN BONDS ANY RIND OF BONDS, TO Those whose Hearts Ache, through Injustice md Oppression TO THOSE WHOSE SAD EYES LOOK THORUGH TEARS FOR THE DAWNING OF A BRIGHTER, CLEARER DAY, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, A D ALSO INSCRIBED, JOSIAH ALLENS WIFE. iMY REASOXS TO THE KIND AND ALMOST GENTLE READER WHY I DONT HAVE NO PREFACE TO THIS BOOK, MY companion, Josinh, linew that my book was all finished and completed, ancl so one lovely day about half past four, P. 31. ill the afternoon, when Ile see me walk srith a firm and even step up to the mantletry piece and take down my bottle of ink and. my steel mounted pen, he says to me What are you goin to v-t-ritin on now, Samantha Says I mildly, I thongllt Id lay to and write a preface to my book, Josiah. I thought Id tell em that I had wrote it all clown about you and I goin 011 a tower to Filaclelfy village to see tlie Sentinel. I guess after you have 11-rote it all out in blnclr ink in a book, about our goin to the Sentimental, folks that rend it will fincl out sve have been there, without your writin ,z pleeface to tell em of it. They will nnless they are durnl fools. He snapped ont awful snappish. I couldnt think what ailed him, 2nd says I fil.inly Stop swearin instantly and to once, Josiah Allen Ancl I added again in mild axents I guess Ill lay to and write my preface, Josiall you know there has got to be one. W L has there got to be one Oh how fractious and sl1nl.p that why was. I never see a sharper, more worrysome why in my vi WRY THIS BOOK hull life than that why was. But I kep cool, and says I in calm tones Because there has Folks always have prefaces, Josiah. What makes em have em theres the dumb of it. What makes em Says I melianically,-for a stiddy follerin of duty has made reprovin my pardner in tirnes of need, a second or third nature to me- stop swearin to once, Josiah Allen They have prefaces, Josiah, becausevagain I paused half a rnomen t in deep thought- they have em, because they do have ern, thats why. But even this plain and almost lucid stat,ement didnt seem to satisfy him, and he kep a argnin and sayin,- Id be hanged if Id have em, and so on and so 4th. And I argued back again. Says I You know folks are urged to publish books time and again, that wonldnt have lad no idee of cloin it if they had bee11 let alone. Says I,- You lrnow after they git their books all finished, they bang back and hate to have em publisled hate to, like clogs and are urged out of their way by relatives a11d friends, and have to give up, and have ern published... ... Read more