The Changed Brides

by E.D.E.N. Southworth, Jeffrey Merrow (Editor)

A gala wedding is to take place at Old Lyon Hall, where a third attempt will be made to wed the young heiress Anna Lyon and her cousin Alexander Lyon, a couple who have been betrothed since early youth. Two prior attempts to hold this ceremony were interrupted by deaths in the immediate family, but the third time is bound to win out.
Written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819–1899) and Copyright ©1869 by Peterson & Brothers.
Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1869 Philadelphia print edition.

500 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1869

About the author

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte (aka "E.D.E.N.") Southworth was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century. She was probably the most widely read author of that era.

Some of her earliest works appeared in The National Era, the newspaper that printed Uncle Tom's Cabin. Like her friend Harriet Beecher Stowe, she was a supporter of social change and women's rights. Her first novel, Retribution, a serial for the National Era, published in book form in 1846, was so well received that she gave up teaching and became a regular contributor to various periodicals, especially the New York Ledger.

Her best known work was The Hidden Hand. Most of her novels deal with the Southern United States during the post-American Civil War era.

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I gobbled this up within just more than a day. Of course there wouldn't be a story to tell if everyone was eminently sensible, right? These foolish mistakes have some grave consequences indeed!