
After a night‑long blaze reduced their boarding school to ashes, a spirited country girl finds herself convalescing in Richmond with a freshly plastered ankle. The surgeon’s stern warning forces her into an uneasy stillness, a stark contrast to the lively life she’s used to leading. While she battles boredom
Language
en
Duration
~5 hours (297K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Rod Crawford, Dave Morgan, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2011-07-09
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1878–1913
Best known for lively early-20th-century girls' fiction, this American writer is closely associated with the Molly Brown books and other cheerful school-and-family stories. Her work kept reaching readers even after her death in 1913, when later books continued to appear under her name.
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