Complete Short Stories: Courtship and Marriage

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From the Forward by Joanna Trollope: "The stories in this volume are dominated by free-spirited girls. The young men possess the financial power, and the terrible ultimate power of keeping their promise of marriage, but they don't have the power of personality. Circled by girls like Patience Woolsworthy and Lucy Graham and Ophelia Gledd, the men often give the impression of longing to escape because these girls—frank, brave, gay and steadfast—are simply too much for them … A girl’s true dowry, Trollope says, is herself, and he applauds her for insisting on being valued for her own sake."