Myra : $b the child of adoption : A romance of real life

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Myra : $b the child of adoption : A romance of real life

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

EN·~4 hours·10 chapters

Chapters

10 total
1

Transcriber’s Note:

0:38
2

MYRA: THE CHILD OF ADOPTION. A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.

0:27
3

CHAPTER I. MOTHER AND CHILD.

38:09
4

CHAPTER II.

30:28
5

CHAPTER III.

32:10
6

CHAPTER IV.

33:37
7

CHAPTER V.

35:00
8

CHAPTER VI.

29:43
9

CHAPTER VII.

29:59
10

CHAPTER VIII.

21:00

Description

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.

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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.

About the author

Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

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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