There is mystery galore! And villains by the pound, although it’s possible that you may be mistaken for a while about who the worst villain is. Capitola is bit unusual for a woman of the 1840s and you can’t help but cheer for her! What stood out most to me was a point in the book where I was relieved that a villain was likely to be captured and she showed him mercy and offered him every chance of repentance.Īnother was this story stood out is that while it does have it’s “slogs of life” for characters here and there, there were small victories along the way here and there for characters.

I’ll try not give many details away because they really must be discovered in the setting of the novel. She brings the street smarts of NYC to the hills of VA and becomes a most interesting heroine. The Hidden Hand (written in 1859, serialized in a newspaper, and then later published as a book in 1888) brings us Capitola, a girl with a most mysterious background. Also, the Missing Bride audiobooks is narrated by multiple people and I find that it takes me a few minutes to get used to a new voice. With a physical book, you can easily flip back and forth for clarification. While The Missing Bride was harder for me to listen to as an audio book (keeping track of names, nicknames, French names, etc). I decided to go hunting for more books by here and stumbled on The Hidden Hand. Again, a novel where it seems like one tragic event after another happens and there are twists and turns to the story and eventually truth (and love) win. Recently I had was looking for an audiobook to listen to for mundane tasks such as treadmills and found another book by Mrs. I should re-read them because I’m a little fuzzy on the details. I liked the books so much that I bought my own set. Eventually things end on a positive note. 🙂 There are tragic circumstances over and over and you think the hero will never be able to crawl out of the slog of life. My friend Velma lent them to me when I was living in Canada and had long winter evenings to read. The books I had read are Ishmael, or In the Depths and it’s sequel Self-Raised, or Out of the Depths, written in the mid 1800s. She has an interesting history and made a living for herself and her two children after her husband abandoned her, by writing. Nevitte is her maiden name, Southworth her married name. In case you’re wondering, her name is not Eden but Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte.

I was introduced to a duo of novels by E.D.E.N.

Self raised by mrs southworth