Dora Deane: or, The East India Uncle
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Eastman Johnson, J. M. W. Turner and Richard Redgrave. An orphan is taken in by relatives who use her as a servant, and a rich uncle is expected home from India — after which everyone's manners improve remarkably. Holmes sold something like two million books, outsold in her century by almost no American woman except Harriet Beecher Stowe; she wrote orphans, wills and just deserts, and the pleasure of the machinery is that it never once fails to deliver. Fifty-six plates after Eastman Johnson and Richard Redgrave trace the orphan's road from hearth to exile and back, the visual argument of a story where home is the whole of the plot.
Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Eastman Johnson, J. M. W. Turner and Richard Redgrave. An orphan is taken in by relatives who use her as a servant, and a rich uncle is expected home from India — after which everyone's manners improve remarkably. Holmes sold something like two...
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Mary Jane Holmes (1825–1907) was an American author who published more than thirty domestic novels from her home in Brockport, New York. Her best-known works include Dora Deane (1858) and Lena Rivers (1856).
Mary Jane Holmes (1825–1907) was an American author who published more than thirty domestic novels from her home in Brockport, New York. Her best-known works include Dora Deane (1858) and Lena Rivers (1856).
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