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You will love this book if you enjoy old-fashioned romance, brave heroines, mountain scenery, scheming rivals, and chapters that end on a cliff.
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What would you do if the cousins who share your home slipped away in the night, just so you could not travel with them? That is how Dainty Chase's summer begins. She is eighteen, fresh from a Richmond school, and poor in everything except beauty and kindness.
Dainty's Cruel Rivals, or the Fatal Birthday, is a novel by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller. It is a melodrama in forty short chapters, with midnight ghosts, secret letters, a fortune-teller in a tent, and a will that sets a wedding for the heir's twenty-sixth birthday. You get a story of young love under siege, where the enemies sit at the family table.
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- 1A Note Pinned to a PillowFree
- 2Aunt Judith Chooses Her Favorites
- 3The Cough in the Next Room
- 4A Sudden Engagement and a Viper
- 5A Strange Will and Stolen Letters
- 6The Gypsy Tent and a Jilted Lover
- 7Mammy, the Ghost Alarm, and a Vanished Bride
- 8Jealousy and Money Drive the Villains
- 9Honor, Faith, and Faithful Servants
- 10Omens, Verses, and the Melodrama Voice
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A Note Pinned to a Pillow
Olive Peyton and Ela Craye are schoolteachers in Richmond, and they board with Dainty's widowed mother. Their aunt, Judith Ellsworth, invites all three nieces to her West Virginia home. The older cousins hope to win her stepson, Lovelace Ellsworth, who has just come home from Europe. They also see that Dainty, with her golden curls and violet-blue eyes, would beat them both.
So they scheme. They keep back the board money they owe, hoping Mrs. Chase cannot afford a new dress for her daughter. Then, on the night before the journey, they slip off alone and leave a note saying the plans have changed.
Dainty weeps. At that moment a tall stranger stands outside the cottage door, and he has heard every word. He is Lovelace Ellsworth, sent to collect the girls. He reads the note with a small smile and offers to escort Dainty himself. On the train, he praises her plain blue dress, and she blushes without knowing why.
A cruel trick that fails leaves the schemer angrier than before.
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Questions about Rivales crueles de Dainty; o, El cumpleaños fatal
What is Dainty's Cruel Rivals about?
It follows Dainty Chase, a poor Richmond girl, who visits a rich aunt in West Virginia and falls in love with the heir, Lovelace Ellsworth. Her jealous cousins and aunt try to stop the marriage.
Who are Dainty's cruel rivals?
They are her cousins Olive Peyton and Ela Craye, who want to marry the heir themselves, with help from their aunt, Mrs. Judith Ellsworth, who plans to keep his inheritance if he misses his birthday wedding.
What is the fatal birthday in the title?
It is the first of August, Lovelace Ellsworth's twenty-sixth birthday. His father's will says he must marry by then or lose his fortune to his stepmother, so the wedding date drives the whole plot.
Is the ghost of the old monk real?
The family tale says a wicked monk haunts the old wing of Ellsworth, and his cough foretells evil. Love insists the ghost is a human trick. The story shows how such a fear can be used against a nervous girl.
Is Dainty's Cruel Rivals easy to read?
Yes, it is approachable. The chapters are short, the narrator speaks plainly, the villains and heroes are clearly marked, and each chapter ends on a hook that moves the story forward.
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Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, the Fatal Birthday. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/daintys-cruel-rivals-or-the-fatal-birthday.
Miller, A. M., Mrs. (2026). Dainty's cruel rivals; or, the fatal birthday. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/daintys-cruel-rivals-or-the-fatal-birthday
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, the Fatal Birthday. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/daintys-cruel-rivals-or-the-fatal-birthday.
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