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What happens when love is treated as worthless, and a daughter refuses to let a wrong stand?
In Slighted Love, Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller brings together scorned affection, family secrets, and a young woman's search for justice. At its heart is a daughter who will not accept the wrong before her. Her struggle gives this romance its emotional pull: she must prove her worth while holding on to the hope of truth.
This is the world of Victorian sentimental fiction, where love faces painful tests and goodness matters. Miller's romance invites you into domestic drama shaped by betrayal and misunderstanding. The appeal lies in strong feeling and clear moral stakes: the hurt of being slighted, the burden of secrets, and the wish to see a wrong set right.
What you’ll discover
- Love under strain Explore the hurt at the heart of affection treated as something of little value.
- A daughter's resolve Follow a young woman whose search for justice gives the romance its central purpose.
- Secrets close to home Enter a family drama where hidden truths make love and trust feel uncertain.
- Feeling without apology Find the strong emotions and clear moral lines that define the sentimental tradition.
- The hope of truth Share the longing for a wrong to be acknowledged and a heroine's worth recognized.
Who will love it
Readers who love old-fashioned melodrama, a brave heroine, a family mystery with a courtroom behind it, and a love story that grows under suspicion, with storms at sea and secrets in every drawer.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A daughter arrives with a secret purpose
- A midnight search in the library
- A trap in Boston and a face in a portrait
- Friends, rivals and a shove from the yacht
- The moonlight party and the fog
- Homeless, grieving and sure he is alive
- Advice from a friend and a lawyer's cruel story
- A sailor's letter and a mother's anguish
- What the story is really about
- How the story is told
Who’s who
- Italy ValeA dark-eyed girl of seventeen, raised in Europe, who comes to Winthrop with a vow to clear her mother's name and find her father's murderer.
- Francis MurrayThe grave, scholarly master of The Lodge, who inherited the Vale fortune and who is watched by Italy as her chief suspect.
- Mrs. ValeItaly's golden-haired mother, tried for her husband's murder and acquitted, who has lived since then under a cloud of public disgrace.
- Mrs. MurrayFrancis's proud mother, who accepts Italy out of duty and then turns against her, fearing her son's growing interest in the girl.
- Percy SeabrightA witty, charming friend of the family and of Italy's late father, who offers her friendship and a good deal of advice.
- Emmett HarlowA kind, wealthy young man who falls in love with Italy and warns her about Percy Seabright, though she cannot return his love.
- Mrs. DunnA jealous, scheming divorcee who falsely calls herself a widow, loves Percy Seabright, and wants her niece Alys to marry Francis Murray.
- Mr. GardnerThe Boston lawyer who defended Mrs. Vale and who begs Italy to leave the past alone, though he comes to admire her courage.
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A girl with a vow and a dead father's missing diary moves into the house of the man she suspects of his murder.
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Slighted Love is a romance of secrets and suspicion by Mrs. Alex.
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A daughter arrives with a secret purpose
The story opens in an old Italian garden. Seventeen-year-old Italy Vale asks her mother why they live such lonely lives and why people seem to shun them. Mrs. Vale finally tells her the truth. Italy's father was murdered in his library at the family's seaside home in Winthrop, near Boston, and Mrs. Vale was tried for the crime. The jury acquitted her, but the crowd hissed, and public opinion has followed her ever since.
Mrs. Vale adds that her husband's wealth was tied by inheritance to male heirs. Because Italy was a girl, it passed to a distant cousin, a young man named Francis Murray. All that remained for mother and daughter was a small private fortune. Mrs. Vale believes some unknown enemy keeps spreading her story from town to town, and she has kept every paper from the trial for her daughter to read.
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What is Slighted Love about?
It follows Italy Vale, a girl raised in Europe, who comes to Winthrop near Boston to find her father's murderer and clear her mother's name. She suspects the man who inherited his fortune, and her search brings danger, secrets and unexpected love.
Who is Italy Vale in Slighted Love?
Italy is a seventeen-year-old American girl born in Italy and raised abroad. Her father was murdered and her mother was tried and acquitted. She is brave, loyal and stubborn, and she vows to find the true killer, whatever the cost.
What is the missing diary in Slighted Love?
It is a book with a gold clasp that Italy's father kept in his desk and guarded closely, even from his wife. Italy's mother believes it holds a clue to his death, so Italy searches for it from her first week at The Lodge.
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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