Three Heroines of New England Romance

Three Heroines of New England Romance - Their true stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice Brown

I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these. And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the[16] sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history. So one comes on the story of the Lady Arbella, and her love and death, with the sweet surprise one has in finding a fragile flower among granite ledges. So the Baby Peregrines velvet cheek has the unconscious caress of every mother who thinks of him rocked to sleep in his rough cradle by the sounding sea. So the thought deals tenderly with Dorothy Bradford, who crossed the mighty darkness of the deep only to fall overboard from the Mayflower, and be drowned in harbor, and would fain reap some harvest of romance in the coming over sea, three years afterward, of Mrs. Southworth, with her young sons, Constant and Thomas, to marry the Governor, who had loved her as Alice Carpenter lang syne. And so the story[17][18][19] of John Aldens courtship is read as if we had found some human beings camped in the midst of demigods. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 54028
Author: Brown, Alice
Release Date: Jan 20, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920, Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921

Illustrator: Garrett, Edmund H. (Edmund Henry), 1853-1929