St. Elmo: Or, Saved at LastSt. Elmo was the most famed and beloved novel by Augusta Jane Evans, a June 2015 inductee into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. First published in 1866, Evans’s rich tale of the relationship between the dashing and worldly St. Elmo and Edna Earl, an exemplar of virtuous Southern womanhood, sold over a million copies in four months and became one of the nineteenth century’s most influential novels. This edition includes an introduction by Evans scholar Diane Roberts about the enduring relevance and legacy of St. Elmo as a work of literature as well as a reflection of gender roles and the seismic societal changes taking place in the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War. |
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Page 197
... Hear " No ! I will hear nothing ! Your touch is profanation . I would sooner go down into my grave , out there in the churchyard , under the granite slabs , than become the wife of a man so unprin cipled . I am neither piqued nor ...
... Hear " No ! I will hear nothing ! Your touch is profanation . I would sooner go down into my grave , out there in the churchyard , under the granite slabs , than become the wife of a man so unprin cipled . I am neither piqued nor ...
Page 249
... hear it ! Poor little Huldah needed a friend , and she could not possibly have fallen into kinder hands than Mr. Murray's . " " There certainly exists some diversity of opinion on that subject . He is rather too grim a guardian , I ...
... hear it ! Poor little Huldah needed a friend , and she could not possibly have fallen into kinder hands than Mr. Murray's . " " There certainly exists some diversity of opinion on that subject . He is rather too grim a guardian , I ...
Page 304
... hear your voice even in reproof . " " I knew mischief would come of this separation from me . You belong to me , and I mean to have my own , and take proper care of you in future . The idea of your working yourself to a skeleton for the ...
... hear your voice even in reproof . " " I knew mischief would come of this separation from me . You belong to me , and I mean to have my own , and take proper care of you in future . The idea of your working yourself to a skeleton for the ...
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