“With Heart So True” is the concluding sequel to “His Heart’s Queen”, the Victorian romance of Miss Violet Huntington and Wallace Richardson. Copyright 1890, 1903 By Street and Smith. Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow.
Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs (1843–1926) was a "dime novelist" from the United States.
In 1868, she married George Sheldon Downs. She used a form of his name as a pseudonym in much of her writing.
Her career began with newspaper contributions in 1869. She was signed by Theodore Dreiser to write for his Smith's Magazine. Dreiser considered her to be one of the "three most popular authors in the world." Between 1880 and 1889, she serialized 47 romances for Street and Smith's New York Weekly.
If your relatives are mean to you, there is no way you are related by blood. In modern terms, go get a DNA test. This is important, because then when someone leaves you a fortune, you don't have to share.
When someone who doesn't like you tells you the love of your life is dead, ALWAYS DOUBLE-CHECK. This could save hundreds of pages.
When you are waiting for rescue, keep in mind that any number of things may delay it. Your rescuer may have gone out of town too late to receive your letter. When he returns, his carriage may be overturned, leaving him with three broken ribs and a broken leg. When he finally sends someone to your rescue, at the house whose only identifying feature is three flowerpots, two of them may have gotten smashed the day before. Really, there are a lot of things that could happen, so be patient.
This book is the long-sought sequel to His Heart's Queen. I am thrilled to finish the story; unfortunately it stalls a bit because of the endless machinations of the baddies. But it's still all good fun.