Thankful Blossom: A Romance of the Jerseys - 1779
Sep 2004 · Digital Antiquaria
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Thankful Blossom is a proper young lady, perhaps age eighteen to twenty, during the American Revolution. She lives on a farm near Morristown, New Jersey, at the time General Washington and his army arrive to encamp for the winter. Probably modeled after the real-life Tempe Wick, Bret Harte weaves a tale of intrigue and romance which has entertained readers since its debut in 1876.This masterfully crafted eBook faithfully preserves the 1888 Riverside Press edition, including its illustrations. It is fully searchable and fully printable. (54pp, 962 Kb)
Thankful Blossom is a proper young lady, perhaps age eighteen to twenty, during the American Revolution. She lives on a farm near Morristown, New Jersey, at the time General Washington and his army arrive to encamp for the winter. Probably modeled after the real-life Tempe Wick, Bret Harte weaves...
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Bret Harte's birth year is variously given as 1836 and 1839, and his tombstone bears the date 1837. He is remembered especially for his two short stories, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868) and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1870), both achievements in local color. The former is the story of an orphaned baby adopted by the men in a gold-rush-era mining camp; it was dramatized by Dion Boucicault in 1894. The latter is a tale about four undesirables expelled from a mining camp and their losing battle against a blizzard. Although he was born in the East and lived there and in Europe most of his life, Harte's 17 years of residence in California have associated him most closely with that state, and the scenes of all his successful stories are set in the West. His contemporary sketches of life in San Francisco during the 1860s, written with Mark Twain, were first collected in book form as Sketches of the Sixties (1926). When he went east again to settle in Boston in 1871, his talent seems to have deserted him. Much of his later life was spent in England. Today, his formerly out-of-print stories are available in reprint versions from Ayer Publishers.
Bret Harte's birth year is variously given as 1836 and 1839, and his tombstone bears the date 1837. He is remembered especially for his two short stories, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868) and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1870), both achievements in local color. The former is the story of an orp...
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