Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Goodfellow, Puck and goblins, Know more than any book. Down with your doleful problems, And court the sunny brook. The south-winds are quick-witted, The schools are sad and slow, The masters quite omitted The lore we care to know.

"An early novella by Wiggin, but not published until 1911 and then only in a magazine under a pseudonym. The Dorcas Society of Maine, of which Wiggin was an active member, published this edition, with an introduction about the history of the manuscript. Love by express, set in Santa Barbara of the 1880s, is about a romance by mail"--Bookdealer's description

"Herein lies the story of the miraculous discovery in a hat box of an unpublished opera by the late Richard Wagner, dealing in the most unique and climacteric manner with feminism, trial marriage, bigamy and polygamy; it's libretto and leit-motive have been studied with passion and are now revealed with religious zeal."

Describes author's meeting with Dickens on a train when she was a young child. It took place during Dickens' visit to America in 1868.

Unable to tolerate any longer the profligate ways of her husband as well as his apparent lack of love for their daughter, Susanna takes little Sue and leaves the home to live in a Shaker settlement.