A City Girl's Second Chance

James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War.

"The book tells how men and women have seized common occasions and made them great; it tells of those of average ability who have succeeded by the use of ordina

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Charles Albert Murdock (1841-1928) left Massachusetts for California in 1855 with his mother, sister and brother. For many years he was editor of the Pacific Un