Happy Dodd: Or, "She Hath Done What She Could,"

by Rose Terry Cooke

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440 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1878

About the author

Rose Terry Cooke was an author and poet. She attended Hartford Female Seminary and published her first poem in the New York Daily Tribune in 1851. She also taught at a Presbyterian church in Burlington, New Jersey and worked as a governess for the family of clergyman William Van Rensselaer.

She married Rollin H. Cooke in 1873 and became known for humorous short stories.

Reviews

[CatholicBibliophagist · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was rereading "The Mayflowers," the first story in A Garland for Girls by Louisa May Alcott when it occurred to me that Happy Dodd, a novel mentioned by one of the characters, was probably to be found online. Alcott makes frequent allusions to popular culture in her works, and I've been interested in tracking them down ever since I first read Little Women in the sixth grade.

So that is why I am reading Happy Dodd; or, "She Hath Done What She Could." It was published in 1887, and must have been very popular since, in Alcott's story, when the book is proposed for reading aloud during the girls' club meeting, it is voted down on the grounds that everyone has already read it. It's one of those moral, improving works to which Alcott's novels, with their realism and humor, were such a welcome relief.

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