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SOUTHWORTH, EMMA DOROTHY ELIZA NEVITTE (1819-1899)

SOUTHWORTH, EMMA DOROTHY ELIZA NEVITTE (1819-1899) , See also:

AMERICAN

American novelist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

Washington, D.C., on the 26th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1819. She studied in a school kept by her stepfather, See also:

JOSHUA, BOOK OF

Joshua L. Henshaw, and in 1840 married See also:

Frederick H. Southworth, of See also:

UTICA

Utica, N.Y. After 1843 she supported herself by teaching . Her first See also:

story," The Irish Refugee, " was published in the See also:

Baltimore Saturday Visitor. Her first novel," Retribution," a serial for the See also:

NATIONAL

National Era, published in See also:

BOOK

book See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form in 1846, was so well received that she gave up teaching and became a See also:

REGULAR

regular contributor to various See also:

PERIODICALS

periodicals, especially the New See also:

York See also:

LEDGER (from the English dialect forms liggen or leggen, to lie or lay; in sense adapted from the Dutch substantive logger)

Ledger. She lived in See also:

GEORGETOWN

Georgetown, D.C., until 1876, then in See also:

YONKERS

Yonkers, N.Y., and again in Georgetown, D.C., where she died on the 3oth of See also:

JUNE

June 1899. Her novels numbered more than sixty; some of them were translated into See also:

German, See also:

French and See also:

SPANISH

Spanish; in 1872 an edition of See also:

THIRTY

thirty-five volumes was published in See also:

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia. They include The Deserted Wife (1850) ; See also:

Mark See also:

SUTHERLAND, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Sutherland (1853) ; See also:

HICKORY

Hickory See also:

Hall (1855) ; Unknown (1874) ; Gloria (1877) ; The Trail of the See also:

SERPENT (Lat. serpens, creeping, from serpere; cf. "reptile " from repere, Gr.4 ml-eta)

Serpent 1879) ; Nearest and Dearest (1881) ; The See also:

MOTHER

Mother's See also:

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

Secret (1883); An See also:

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

Exile's See also:

BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

Bride (1887); The Hidden See also:

Hand (1888); and Broken Pledges (1891).

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