Three Heroines of New England Romance: Their true stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice Brown

								


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THREE HEROINES OF NEW ENGLAND ROMANCE
THREE HEROINES OF NEW ENGLAND ROMANCE
THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford
Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown



    With many little picturings

    authentic and fanciful by

    Edmund H Garrett and published

    by Little Brown and

    Company Boston 1894
Copyright, 1894,

    BY EDMUND H. GARRETT.

    University Press:

    JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

CONTENTS

    PRISCILLA                          15

      HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD.



    AGNES SURRIAGE                     63

      ALICE BROWN.



    MARTHA HILTON                     109

      LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY.



    NOTES                             137

      EDMUND H. GARRETT.
LIST OF DRAWINGS

  Martha Hilton. “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion

        towering upon her powdered head”                Frontispiece.


Priscilla at the spinning wheel                                   14


“In his rough cradle by the sounding sea”                         17


Rose Standish                                                     21


“The daring and spirited girl”                                    25


“Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word”   29


Miles Standish                                                    33


“Up and down the sands I’d pace”                                  36


“Her respected parent”                                            37


“There, too, came Priscilla”                                      41


“Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods”            43


“First happened on the Mayflower”                                 45


“The blushing Sabbatia”                                           47


John Alden                                                        49


“Silvers its wave, its rustling wave”                             51


The wedding procession                                            53


Grape-vine                                                        56


Woodbine                                                          57


The ships of the merchants                                        59


“Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets”                       64


“Houses set ‘catty cornered’”                                     65


“An old Marbleheader”                                             67


“The solid dignity of the old Town House”                         69