Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday
Dainty Chase, a pretty, penniless girl just out of school in Richmond, Virginia, is invited with her two older cousins to spend the summer at the West Virginia estate of a wealthy aunt by marriage. The cousins, Olive and Ela, have come to catch the aunt's stepson, Lovelace Ellsworth, newly returned from Europe; he prefers Dainty, and they set out to destroy her. What follows involves a legendary ghost, a drugged sleep, a monk's robe, a wedding morning, a madman and a will with a birthday clause, all delivered in forty short chapters. Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller was one of the most prolific American writers of dime-novel romance, and this one, published in 1898, is a representative sample of the form: fast, melodramatic and entirely shameless. Read it online in your browser on Vinteuil; the first chapter is free.
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