The Triangular Society: Leaves From The Life Of A Portland Family

by Elizabeth Akers Allen

The Triangular Society is a captivating novel that explores the social dynamics and power struggles of a wealthy family in nineteenth-century Portland, Maine. Through the eyes of the family's matriarch, Emma Marsh, we are introduced to a cast of complex and intriguing characters whose passions and schemes are played out against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society. With its lush descriptions of the landscape and masterful characterization, this book is a must-read for fans of classic American literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

388 pages, Hardcover

Published July 18, 2023

About the author

Born Elizabeth Anne Chase, she grew up in Farmington, Maine, where she attended Farmington Academy. She began to write at the age of fifteen, under the pen name Florence Percy and in 1855 published under that name a volume of poems entitled Forest Buds. In 1851 she married Marshall S. M. Taylor, but they were divorced within a few years. In subsequent years she travelled through Europe; in Rome she became acquainted with the feminist Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis. While in Europe she served as a correspondent for the Portland Transcript and the Boston Evening Gazette. She started contributing to the Atlantic Monthly in 1858. She married Paul Akers, a Maine sculptor whom she had met in Rome, in 1860; he died in 1861. In 1865 she married E. M. Allen, of New York. In 1866 a collection of her poems was published in Boston. She died on August 7, 1911 in Tuckahoe, New York. She is buried in Kenscio Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.