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What if doing right by your family means giving up the life you hoped to lead?
Marcia Schuyler is a young woman of modest means in an earlier America, raised in a household where family comes first. When duty asks her to set aside her own plans, she faces a choice that reaches beyond her own wishes. Her sacrifice leads her toward a life she never expects.
In this gentle romance, Grace Livingston Hill explores how affection can grow where none is expected. Marcia’s story moves through slow changes of heart rather than fast action. Prayer, conscience and trust shape the way characters understand their choices, while a quiet question remains: can a decision made for others leave room for happiness?
What you’ll discover
- A heroine guided by conscience Follow Marcia as she weighs her own wishes against the needs of her family.
- The cost of duty Consider what it means to do right when the choice changes your own plans.
- Affection in unexpected places Discover a romance that gives slow changes of heart room to matter.
- Faith within daily choices Explore how prayer and trust help characters make sense of the paths before them.
- A quieter kind of romance Spend time with a story where character matters more than the speed of events.
Who will love it
For readers who love old-fashioned romance, strong-hearted heroines and small-town life with its gossips and friendly rascals. Anyone curious about early America and the dawn of the railroad will find plenty to enjoy.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A girl picks berries for a pink dress
- A mistaken kiss at the garden gate
- The bride is gone and Marcia steps in
- A borrowed veil and a borrowed life
- A silent house and three watchful aunts
- Gossip, a rascal and a loyal friend
- Railroads, books and a quiet closeness
- Kate schemes and Hannah sharpens her tongue
- What the story is really about
Who’s who
- Marcia SchuylerA seventeen-year-old farm girl, honest and loving, who agrees to take her sister's place as David's bride.
- David SpaffordA good-hearted newspaper editor who believes in the coming railroad and is bruised by being jilted.
- Kate SchuylerMarcia's beautiful, spoiled older sister, who wants admiration and runs off with her sea captain.
- Miranda GriscomHannah's red-haired cousin, blunt and brave, who becomes Marcia's devoted protector.
- Hannah HeathA village beauty who hoped to marry David and resents Marcia for taking her place.
- Harry TempleA smooth, idle young man from New York who flatters women and bears a grudge against David.
- Aunt ClarindaDavid's gentle, lame aunt, who gives Marcia the only warm welcome in the Spafford family.
- Madam SchuylerMarcia's capable stepmother, who runs her household like a general and teaches her to keep house.
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Marcia Schuyler
by Grace Livingston Hill · 1908
A girl of seventeen stands in her sister's bridal veil, marrying a man who loves someone else.
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What would you do if your sister vanished on her wedding morning and your father offered you in her place? Marcia Schuyler, a farm girl of seventeen, says yes.
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A girl picks berries for a pink dress
Marcia Schuyler lives in a big house where everything is being made for her older sister Kate. Kate is about to marry David Spafford, and the spare room overflows with linen, lace and silk. Marcia is thought too young to need anything new.
So one bright morning she picks a full pail of blackberries and sells them at the village store. With the money she buys pink and white chintz, and she cuts and sews a dress in a single day while her stepmother and Kate are away in town. Her friend Mary Ann Fothergill walks with her and asks, with open envy, whether she wants what Kate has.
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What is Marcia Schuyler about?
It follows a young farm girl who agrees to marry her sister's jilted bridegroom, David Spafford, to spare him public shame. The story is about duty, sacrifice and love growing slowly in an unlikely marriage.
When is Marcia Schuyler set?
It is set in upstate New York around the time the first steam railroad is being built. Characters talk of the Erie Canal, the Mohawk and Hudson line and the engine Dewitt Clinton, so the background is real history.
Who is Miranda in Marcia Schuyler?
Miranda Griscom is the red-haired, outspoken cousin of Hannah Heath. She admires Marcia, keeps her secrets and steps in when Marcia is in danger, and she is one of the book's liveliest characters.
The author
Grace Livingston Hill
1865–1947 · American Christian novelist
Grace Livingston Hill was an American novelist and short story writer. She was born in Wellsville, New York, in 1865 and later lived in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where she died in 1947. She wrote Christian romance novels in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Marcia Schuyler and The Man of the Desert.
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