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Title. Early Candlelight. MAUD HART LOVELACE. Introduction by. Rhoda R. Gilman
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Introduction. Introduction
NOTES
Book 1
Book 1-Chapter 1
I
Book 1-Chapter 2
II
Book 1-Chapter 3
III
Book 1-Chapter 4
IV
Book 1-Chapter 5
V
Book 1-Chapter 6
VI
Book 1-Chapter 7
VII
Book 1-Chapter 8
VIII
Book 1-Chapter 9
IX
Book 1-Chapter 10
X
Book 1-Chapter 11
XI
Book 1-Chapter 12
XII
Book 2
Book 2-Chapter 1
I
Book 2-Chapter 2
II
Book 2-Chapter 3
III
Book 2-Chapter 4
IV
Book 2-Chapter 5
V
Book 2-Chapter 6
VI
Book 2-Chapter 7
VII
Book 2-Chapter 8
VIII
Book 2-Chapter 9
IX
Book 2-Chapter 10
X
Book 2-Chapter 11
XI
Book 2-Chapter 12
XII
Book 2-Chapter 13
XIII
Book 2-Chapter 14
XIV
Book 2-Chapter 15
XV
Book 2-Chapter 16
XVI
The author wishes to state that while she has been immeasurably helped in the creation of her characters by material left by pioneers of her state, she has not disguised those pioneers under fictitious names. Real names are used wherever real persons appear in the story. The poem which is quoted in the final chapter of the book was written by James M. Goodhue and printed in an early issue of the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Early Candlelight is good historical fiction. It is the kind of work that throws open a window on the past and inspires more than a few readers to go on to a lifelong study of history. Such books are neither common nor easy to write. If the background of time and place is to be more than a thin, one-dimensional stage set, authors must be saturated in the subject. They must know how people lived, ate, dressed, spoke, and traveled and also how they viewed themselves and the world.
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Now Deedee was proud of being a divil DuGay. She knew it meant that her father, old Denis, could fiddle; that her big brothers, Narcisse and Amable and Hypo-lite, could drink more grog without getting tipsy than any other voyageurs on the river; that her little brothers, George and Lafe, jigged for the officers and visiting dignitaries; that her mother cooked stews which the soldiers came and paid two shillings for, and was summoned to the post in great haste and excitement whenever a baby was expected. Deedee was glad to be identified, and smiled at M’sieu Page.
But when Mrs. Boles said, “Really? I must ask her into my Sabbath school,” Deedee’s mood darkened. Not that she objected to the idea of the Sabbath school. She noted its existence with quick interest. It was something in the lady’s pretty eyes which regarded her curiously, as though a divil DuGay were a bear’s claw necklace. Deedee’s smile vanished, and her tongue shot out. She could shoot out her tongue until it looked like a snake’s tongue—regrettable accomplishment.
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