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The Man Between
• Two historical romance books by Amelia E. Barr are in this Kindle The Man Between & A Song of a Single Note
The Man Between
What if you were a society girl, courted by dozens of men but in love with a man you had had met only once – a man whose face haunted your memory? Ethel Rawdon, young, fresh, headstrong and living in the splendor of New York City, is in such a quandary.
What’s more, Ethel returns from the opera one evening to find a letter that will change her life forever. Ethel is summoned immediately to friend Dora Denning’s suite, a private arrangement of five rooms overlooking the park. After Ethel is greeted by liveried footmen and waiting women, Dora delivers her news in a rush – the handsome and clever Basil Stanhope has declared his love. Dora is enthralled but her relations less so fearing Mr Stanhope’s love may be for Dora’s inheritance. Before Ethel can get her bearings, however, her life collides with Frederick Mostyn, an Englishman with a boyish delight in his new life in New York City and the mysterious Tyrell Rawdon. Thus begins the tale of Ethel Rawdon’s international romance and intrigue, one of author Amelia E. Barr’s most compelling adventures.
A Song of a Single Note
A Love Story
About The Author
British-born Amelia E. Barr (1831 - 1919) married and moved to Texas and later New York. She authored 80 romance novels before her death at age 87. Born a Reverend’s daughter in Lancashire, England, she married and moved to the United States and worked as school teacher . She lost her husband and four sons in an 1867 epidemic of yellow fever. Her three daughters survived. She was highly acclaimed during her era and wrote numerous historical, religious and romantic books
Romance and Reality (1872)
Jan Vedder's Wife (1885)
A Daughter of Fife (1886)
A Bow of Orange Ribbon (1886)
A Border Shepherdess (1887)
Remember the Alamo (1888)
Between Two Loves (1889)
Friend Olivia (1891)
A Rose of a Hundred Leaves (1891)
Birds of a Feather (1893)
The Lone House (1894)
Bernicia (1895)
A Knight of the Nets (1896)
Trinity Bells (1899)
The Maid of Maiden Lane (1900)
Souls of Passage (1901)
The Lion's Whelp (1901)
Thyra Varrick (1903)
The Black Shilling (1903)
Cecilia's Lovers (1906)
The Man Between (1906)
The Belle of Bowling Green (1908)
The Strawberry Handkerchief (1908)
The Hands of Compulsion (1909)
The House of Cherry Street (1909)
A Reconstructed Marriage (1910)
Sheila Vedder (1911)
The Measure of a Man (1915)
The Man Between
What if you were a society girl, courted by dozens of men but in love with a man you had had met only once – a man whose face haunted your memory? Ethel Rawdon, young, fresh, headstrong and living in the splendor of New York City, is in such a quandary.
What’s more, Ethel returns from the opera one evening to find a letter that will change her life forever. Ethel is summoned immediately to friend Dora Denning’s suite, a private arrangement of five rooms overlooking the park. After Ethel is greeted by liveried footmen and waiting women, Dora delivers her news in a rush – the handsome and clever Basil Stanhope has declared his love. Dora is enthralled but her relations less so fearing Mr Stanhope’s love may be for Dora’s inheritance. Before Ethel can get her bearings, however, her life collides with Frederick Mostyn, an Englishman with a boyish delight in his new life in New York City and the mysterious Tyrell Rawdon. Thus begins the tale of Ethel Rawdon’s international romance and intrigue, one of author Amelia E. Barr’s most compelling adventures.
A Song of a Single Note
A Love Story
About The Author
British-born Amelia E. Barr (1831 - 1919) married and moved to Texas and later New York. She authored 80 romance novels before her death at age 87. Born a Reverend’s daughter in Lancashire, England, she married and moved to the United States and worked as school teacher . She lost her husband and four sons in an 1867 epidemic of yellow fever. Her three daughters survived. She was highly acclaimed during her era and wrote numerous historical, religious and romantic books
Romance and Reality (1872)
Jan Vedder's Wife (1885)
A Daughter of Fife (1886)
A Bow of Orange Ribbon (1886)
A Border Shepherdess (1887)
Remember the Alamo (1888)
Between Two Loves (1889)
Friend Olivia (1891)
A Rose of a Hundred Leaves (1891)
Birds of a Feather (1893)
The Lone House (1894)
Bernicia (1895)
A Knight of the Nets (1896)
Trinity Bells (1899)
The Maid of Maiden Lane (1900)
Souls of Passage (1901)
The Lion's Whelp (1901)
Thyra Varrick (1903)
The Black Shilling (1903)
Cecilia's Lovers (1906)
The Man Between (1906)
The Belle of Bowling Green (1908)
The Strawberry Handkerchief (1908)
The Hands of Compulsion (1909)
The House of Cherry Street (1909)
A Reconstructed Marriage (1910)
Sheila Vedder (1911)
The Measure of a Man (1915)
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First published January 1, 1906
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Amelia E. Barr
129 books10 followersAmelia Edith Barr, née Huddleston, was an English American novelist. (See also under Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr.)
In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters, Mrs. Barr moved to Ridgewood,New Jersey in 1868. She came there to tutor the three sons of a prominent citizen, William Libby, and opened a school in a small house. This structure still stands at the southwest corner of Van Dien and Linwood Avenues.
Amelia Barr did not like Ridgewood and did not remain there for very long. She left shortly after selling a story to a magazine.[Caldwell,William A.,et al.,"The History of a Village, Ridgewood,N.J.," State Tercentenary Committee, c. 1964, p. 32] In 1869, she moved to New York City where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels.
By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft. The name has been applied to that period of her career, the most productive and successful. She remained there until moving in with her daughter Lilly in White Plains in her last years.
In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters, Mrs. Barr moved to Ridgewood,New Jersey in 1868. She came there to tutor the three sons of a prominent citizen, William Libby, and opened a school in a small house. This structure still stands at the southwest corner of Van Dien and Linwood Avenues.
Amelia Barr did not like Ridgewood and did not remain there for very long. She left shortly after selling a story to a magazine.[Caldwell,William A.,et al.,"The History of a Village, Ridgewood,N.J.," State Tercentenary Committee, c. 1964, p. 32] In 1869, she moved to New York City where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels.
By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft. The name has been applied to that period of her career, the most productive and successful. She remained there until moving in with her daughter Lilly in White Plains in her last years.
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September 26, 2017
Edith Rawdon won't marry for money. Rest assured, when her beaux finally arrives on the scene she doesn't take him from skid row, not in this type of romance.
She meets Tyrell Rawdon quite by chance on three separate occasions before she finally gets to know him. Their identical surnames are more than just a coincidence, wouldn't you know it they are related through a shared English ancestry!
Though mostly set in New York, the English connection allows Transatlantic author the opportunity to give her lovers a nice excuse to get hold of a country manor in Yorkshire and become Lord and Lady for a time.
Of course they eventually give up the rights to their titles to return to America and the superior ways of New York. Barr herself was British but having emigrated to America she knew which side her bread was buttered on.
The only drama, if you can call it that, involved the marital problems of Edith's impossibly vacuous friend Dora. The sympathetic characters are all idle and wealthy, yet claim that privilege and position mean nothing to them in the usual 'have cake and eat it' insincerity of such novels.
Where's a Wall Street crash when you need one?
She meets Tyrell Rawdon quite by chance on three separate occasions before she finally gets to know him. Their identical surnames are more than just a coincidence, wouldn't you know it they are related through a shared English ancestry!
Though mostly set in New York, the English connection allows Transatlantic author the opportunity to give her lovers a nice excuse to get hold of a country manor in Yorkshire and become Lord and Lady for a time.
Of course they eventually give up the rights to their titles to return to America and the superior ways of New York. Barr herself was British but having emigrated to America she knew which side her bread was buttered on.
The only drama, if you can call it that, involved the marital problems of Edith's impossibly vacuous friend Dora. The sympathetic characters are all idle and wealthy, yet claim that privilege and position mean nothing to them in the usual 'have cake and eat it' insincerity of such novels.
Where's a Wall Street crash when you need one?
May 30, 2016
Verbose and boring
Well that's what I get for picking $0.99 book off of Amazon. The book is not formatted for an electronic format so it is very hard to read and then since apparently I paid no attention to when it was written, the style was just not what I like.
Well that's what I get for picking $0.99 book off of Amazon. The book is not formatted for an electronic format so it is very hard to read and then since apparently I paid no attention to when it was written, the style was just not what I like.
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