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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
Readers who love old-fashioned romance, family secrets, moonlit meetings and a heroine who keeps her promises against every pressure will find a warm home in this story.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A cruel remark beside the lake
- A ghost in an old brocade gown
- A stolen necklace and a promise to Dinah
- Moonlit meetings and her mother's story
- New York, a stolen purse, and a portrait
- A disguise, a rival, and a name on a letter
- Born into shame, or into something else
- Pride, jealousy, and the power of a promise
- How the story is told
Who’s who
- Golden GlenalvanA warm, willful girl not yet sixteen who grows up in a ruined Southern mansion and sets out to find her lost mother.
- Hugh GlenalvanGolden's gentle white-haired grandfather, who has raised her and who fears his son but still tries to defend her.
- DinahThe old servant Golden calls Black Mammy, fiercely loyal, quick to scold, and the only mother Golden has known.
- John GlenalvanGolden's stern uncle, who owns the estate and wants his niece hidden away and his daughter married to a rich man.
- Elinor GlenalvanGolden's proud, dark-eyed cousin, who wants a wealthy husband and sees her young cousin as a threat.
- Bertram ChesleighA rich and handsome young man, quick to love and proud of his family name, who chases a ghost and finds a girl.
- Mrs. DesmondBertram's beautiful sister, a fiercely jealous wife who loves her husband and daughter and fears every pretty woman.
- Celine DuvalA cunning French maid in the Desmond house who sells secrets and favors for gold.
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What is a name worth, and who decides where a child belongs? Little Golden's Daughter is a romance by Mrs.
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A cruel remark beside the lake
Golden lives in the ruined western wing of Glenalvan Hall with her white-haired grandfather Hugh and old Dinah. Her uncle John and his family hold the good rooms.
One afternoon her cousins Elinor and Clare laugh at her wish to attend their party. Clare snaps that the worst thing Golden ever did was to be born.
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What is Little Golden's Daughter about?
It follows Golden Glenalvan, a girl raised in a ruined Southern mansion. Her family calls her birth a disgrace, and after a heartbreak she goes to New York to find her mother, working as a nurse under a false name.
Who is Bertram Chesleigh in Little Golden's Daughter?
Bertram is the wealthy, dark-eyed young man who visits Glenalvan Hall as John Glenalvan's guest. He chases Golden dressed as a ghost and falls in love with her, and his sister's family later employs her.
Why does Golden pretend to be a ghost?
Angry that her cousins would not invite her to their party, Golden puts on an old brocade gown and pretends to be Erma Glenalvan, the family ghost, hoping to frighten the guests and spoil their evening.
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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