The Hand but Not the Heart: Or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring

Jessie Loring marries a man she does not love because everyone agrees she should, and gives him her hand and nothing else — for the rest of both their lives. Arthur left school at thirteen, half-blind and apprenticed to a watchmaker, and became one of the most widely read Americans of his century; he wrote to instruct, and the instruction here is aimed squarely at the families who arrange these things.

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E-bog: 19. august 2026