
audiobook
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Transcriber’s Note:
MYRA: THE CHILD OF ADOPTION. A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.
CHAPTER I. MOTHER AND CHILD.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
A tender, 19th‑century romance opens in a softly lit nursery, where a young mother watches her newborn with a mix of love and quiet despair. The delicate description of lace, flowers and the infant’s first gaze sets a mood of fragile hope, while the mother’s whispered doubts hint at hidden pains and the pressures of a difficult marriage.
When a striking, dark‑skinned woman enters the room, offering to take the child, the tension rises. Her presence suggests a world of social and familial complexities that will challenge the young mother’s heart and sense of duty. Listeners are invited to follow Myra’s early days, feeling the pull between affection, duty, and the secret forces that shape an adoption story rooted in real life.
Language
en
Duration
~4 hours (241K characters)
Series
Beadle's dime novels, no. 3.
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: I. P. Beadle and company, 1860.
Credits
Richard Tonsing 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
2023-02-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1810–1886
A pioneering 19th-century American novelist and editor, she helped shape popular fiction in the United States and is often linked to the rise of the dime novel. Her work mixed domestic drama, history, and sensation in ways that reached a huge readership.
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