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What can love change in a neighbourhood where money is short, but a good heart still counts?
In A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice brings warmth and gentle humour to a Southern world of ordinary neighbours. Hardship sits beside affection, and people matter more than their addresses. This is a romance built around the possibility that love can change not just a relationship, but a person.
Rice looks at a poor but spirited community with a kindly eye. Her comic touch makes room for life's hard parts without letting them fill every corner. The appeal lies in that balance: sweetness alongside struggle, kindness alongside need, and the hope that character can grow even when circumstances remain difficult.
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- A neighbourhood with spirit Enter a Southern setting where short purses do not define a person's worth.
- Love beyond courtship Explore a romance that treats love as a force for personal change.
- Humour beside hardship Find a gentle comic touch that leaves room for the weight of poverty.
- Kindness at the centre Spend time with fiction that values a good heart over a good address.
- Another age to consider Read with a thoughtful eye for the period's attitudes to class, gender, and race.
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You will love this if you enjoy warm Southern settings, spirited heroines, comic secondary characters, and a romance where promises, class and conscience pull people in different directions.
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- Thornwood and a girl raised by her father
- A race ends at the railroad crossing
- One stormy night at the Cant-Pass-It
- Miss Lady defends Don as Phineas blunders
- A learned man and a lonely young woman
- Billy-goat Hill and the Flathers family
- Married life on College Street
- Don comes home to find her married
- What the story is really about
Who’s who
- Miss Lady CarseyA high-spirited Kentucky girl who loves Thornwood, horses and her father, and wants to be useful and loved.
- Donald MorleyA charming, restless young man from a wealthy family who falls in love and tries to become a man worth trusting.
- Colonel Bob CarseyMiss Lady's doting father, a stout old Kentuckian who cannot refuse his daughter anything.
- Doctor John Jay QueeringtonA serious scholar buried in his life's work, a widower with three children who needs someone to look after him.
- Chick FlathersA small, ragged, tongue-tied boy from Bean Alley who adores Miss Lady and sees more than anyone knows.
- Myrtella FlathersA formidable cook who bullies everyone, pays her brother's rent and guards a tender secret about Chick.
- Phineas FlathersA red-headed talker who lives off church charity and dreams up schemes to avoid honest work.
- Mrs. SequinDon's fashionable sister, who wants to climb socially, build a grand house and manage everyone's lives.
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Un romanzo sulla Collina della Capra
by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · 1912
A headstrong Kentucky girl races a horse toward a railroad crossing, and a shot in a saloon changes everything.
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Soon a shot is fired in a saloon, and a silent, ragged boy sees it all. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill is a Kentucky novel by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice.
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Thornwood and a girl raised by her father
The story opens in a Kentucky spring at Thornwood, the shabby old mansion where Colonel Bob Carsey lives with his motherless daughter. She never took a proper name, so everyone calls her Miss Lady. She grew up running wild with her neighbour Noah Wicker, and she can fish, shoot and ride as well as any man.
A boarding school lasted one term. Miss Lady came home and educated herself, working sums in the river sand and reciting history to the sparrows from the fork of an elm. She read every dusty book in the little upstairs library, from Horace to Don Quixote.
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What is A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill about?
It follows Miss Lady Carsey, a spirited Kentucky girl, and Don Morley, a rich young man accused of a crime. A shooting in a saloon, a hasty marriage and a silent boy bring comedy and heartache.
Who is Chick Flathers?
Chick is a small, ragged boy found in an ash barrel on Billy-goat Hill and raised by the Flathers family. He cannot speak clearly, but he is loyal, brave and sees more than anyone knows.
Where does the title come from?
Billy-goat Hill is the nickname of the hill above the river near Thornwood, where the Carsey mansion stands. The poor district of Bean Alley lies at its foot, and the Sequins build a grand house on its crest.
The author
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
1870–1942 · American novelist
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice was an American novelist born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, in 1870. She lived in Louisville, Kentucky, and died there in 1942. She wrote Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, published in 1901, Mr. Opp, published in 1909, and A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill, published in 1912.
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