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What happens when love depends on a truth that a family keeps hidden?
In Little Golden's Daughter, Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller brings together a hidden identity, forbidden love, and the secrets that hold a family together. Love meets obstacles, while a concealed past gives the romance its suspense. The question of who someone really is becomes inseparable from the bonds of love and family.
Miller's tale belongs to the popular domestic fiction of the late nineteenth century. An American novelist who writes for family readers, she brings the concerns of that tradition into focus: identity, courtship, and the family circle. Here, private secrets matter because the family stands at the center of life, shaping the lives within it.
What you’ll discover
- An identity kept hidden A concealed identity brings uncertainty to a romance shaped by questions of the past.
- Love against obstacles Forbidden love places the heart at the center of a story filled with difficulty.
- Secrets within the family Explore family ties that draw their strength, and their troubles, from what remains unspoken.
- Feeling at the heart Enter an old-fashioned romance that gives strong emotion room to shape the drama.
- Victorian popular storytelling Discover the domestic concerns that help shape Miller's romance for family readers.
Who will love it
This book suits readers who love old-fashioned romance, family secrets, ghosts that are not what they seem, brave young heroines and wicked relatives.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Golden inherits blame she never earned
- A ghost disguise opens a romance
- Her mother's secret sends her away
- A kind stranger offers a foothold
- Disguise cannot protect her from lies
- Finding family unsettles her beliefs
- Conduct matters more than inherited reputation
- Keeping faith can also cause harm
- Kindness offers what family withholds
Who’s who
- Golden GlenalvanA trusting, quick-tempered girl raised in secret at Glenalvan Hall, who wants to know who her mother was and why her family hates her.
- Hugh GlenalvanGolden's gentle white-haired grandfather, who has given up his property to keep her and wants only to protect her from the truth.
- DinahThe old Black servant and nurse, called Black Mammy, who guards Golden fiercely and distrusts John Glenalvan and every handsome stranger.
- Bertram ChesleighA wealthy, handsome guest who falls in love with Golden after chasing her as a ghost, but is proud and easily swayed.
- John GlenalvanGolden's stern uncle, who owns the hall, hides her away and holds a dark secret about his sister that he will defend at any cost.
- Elinor GlenalvanGolden's beautiful, haughty cousin, who is set on marrying the rich guest and will stoop to any trick to remove her rival.
- Mrs. DesmondBertram's elegant sister in New York, devoted to her family but poisoned by jealousy of her flirtatious husband.
- Richard LeithA grave New York lawyer with a sad past, whose name on a card is the only clue Golden has to her parents.
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Dressed as her family's ghost, Golden is kissed by a stranger while her own kin curse her for being born.
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What would you do if your own family told you that the worst thing you ever did was to be born? That is where this story begins.
Little Golden's Daughter at a glance
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A happy girl hears she is a disgrace
The story opens at Glenalvan Hall, a once grand mansion now half in ruins. Golden Glenalvan lives in the shabby west wing with her white-haired grandfather Hugh and an old servant named Dinah. She is nearly sixteen and roams the woods like a bird.
The rest of the house belongs to her uncle John and his family. His daughters Elinor and Clare give a party for a rich guest, and Golden is not invited. Then Clare tells her that the worst thing she could do was be born, and that her mother disgraced the proud old name.
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Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. Little Golden's Daughter. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/little-goldens-daughter.
Miller, A. M., Mrs. (2026). Little Golden's daughter. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/little-goldens-daughter
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What is Little Golden's Daughter about?
It tells of Golden Glenalvan, a girl raised in secret at a ruined Southern mansion who learns her family calls her a disgrace. Her love for a handsome guest and her search for her mother carry her to New York.
Who is Little Golden's Daughter by?
It is by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, an American novelist of the Victorian era who wrote many popular romances. She died in 1937, and this book is one of her best-remembered tales of secrets and wronged heroines.
Is Little Golden's Daughter a true story?
No, it is a work of fiction. It borrows the familiar elements of nineteenth-century romance, such as a hidden birth, a secret love and a family mystery, and sets them in the American South and New York.
The author
Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
1850–1937 · American dime novelist
Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller was the pen name of Mittie Frances Clarke Point Miller, an American novelist born in 1850. She lived in the United States and died in 1937. She wrote dime novels in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Slighted Love and Little Golden’s Daughter.
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