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Catherine Stanford
ASIN: B00J4XRH64
Publisher: Spotted Cap Books
Pages: 125

This long-forgotten novella of the Victorian era was written by a remarkable woman, Charles E. Conrad's mother-in-law, Catherine Elizabeth Stanford, née Coggan. Written during lean times after the death of her husband in an attempt to earn a little money to aid in her efforts to support her remaining family of three children -- her eldest son having already left the nest and joined the Northwest Mounted Police -- she had a difficult time getting the work into print. Published at last in mid-1878, it provided but a modicum of income to the struggling widow. In her efforts to get the story published, she showed a determination that was not easily turned aside and had stood her in good stead in hard times. Initially serialized in a magazine, she saw it published in book form twenty years later, a testimony to her determination. Hearts Versus Diamonds is a simple story and the product of ...
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