Genre Romance

A Wreath of Orange Blossoms

The daughter of a poor seamstress takes a package to the house of her mother’s wealthy employer and meets the lady’s son. The son requests a date and eventually proposes marriage. His mother is horrified and disowns him. After the…

A Romance of the Cliff Dwellers

The story itself deals with the primitive instinct of mankind; to desire was to take at strength of arms, and thus one of the chiefs chose for his own a maiden fair who was loved in turn by a young…

A Prisoner of the Harem

Alice Durand, after weeks of discouragement, reads the following advertisement in the New York Herald: “Governess wanted. Young American woman, well educated and speaking French and German, may obtain lucrative position with prominent Egyptian. Fare and expenses will be advanced.…

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