Alonzo and Melissa; Or, The Unfeeling Father: An American Tale

by I. (Isaac) Mitchell, Daniel Jackson

EN·~6 hours·3 chapters

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BY DANIEL JACKSON, Jr.

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BOSTON: - PRINTED FOR THE PUBLISHERS. - 1851.

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~6 hours (369K characters)

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Produced by Louise Hope, David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2009-02-18

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28112

Subjects

United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction Love stories Gothic fiction PS

About the authors

I. (Isaac) Mitchell

d. 1812

An early American journalist and novelist, he is remembered today for the Gothic tale The Asylum, or Alonzo and Melissa, a popular early U.S. romance with a dramatic afterlife in print.

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Daniel Jackson

b. 1790

Best remembered for the early American novel Alonzo and Melissa, this little-known writer is tied to one of the era’s most tangled publishing stories. His name appears on editions of a sentimental romance that later bibliographers linked to a disputed and likely pirated text.

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