
BERTHA’S ENGAGEMENT.
CHAPTER I. THE OLD WOODEN BRIDGE.
CHAPTER II. GRATITUDE.
CHAPTER III. AFTER THE STORM.
CHAPTER IV. THE COUNTRY TAVERN.
CHAPTER V. THE DANGEROUS CONFIDANT.
CHAPTER VI. BACK TO HER WORK.
CHAPTER VII. THE MAN OF DESTINY.
CHAPTER VIII. A BITTER CONTEST.
CHAPTER IX. BEYOND ENDURANCE.
Language
en
Duration
~13 hours (800K characters)
Release date
2026-04-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1810–1886
A hugely popular 19th-century novelist and editor, she helped shape American popular fiction and is often credited with launching the dime novel. Her stories mixed melodrama, romance, and suspense for a mass audience that stretched far beyond the magazine page.
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