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The Man Between
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204 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1906
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About the author
Amelia E. Barr
133 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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