Lady Baltimore

Owen Wister

Macmillan, 1906 - Fiction - 406 pages

Novel of Post-Civil War Charleston life, by author of Virginian. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Contents

• I: 1
• II: 9
• III: 21
• THE GIRL BEHIND THE COUNTER I: 40
• THE BOY OF THE CAKE: 49
• VI: 64
• THE GIRL BEHIND THE COUNTER II: 83
• VIII: 98
• IX: 123
• X: 132
• DADDY BEN AND HIS SEED: 163
• FROM THE BEDSIDE: 180
• THE GIRL BEHIND THE COUNTER III: 197
• THE REPLACERS: 212
• WHAT SHE CAME TO: 236
• THE STEEL WASP: 268
• DOING THE HANDSOME THING: 286
• AGAIN THE REPLACERS: 299
• XIX: 321
• WHAT SHE WANTED HIM: 343
• XXI: 358
• BEHIND THE TIMES: 385
• POOR AUNT CAROLA: 401

About the author

Owen Wister was born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 14, 1860. He graduated from Harvard University in 1882 and studied musical composition in Paris for two years. He spent the summer of 1885 in Wyoming for his health. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1888 and was admitted to the bar in 1889. He practiced law for two years in Philadelphia and continued to spend his summers in the West. In 1891, after the acceptance by Harper's of two of his Western sketches, he decided to pursue a literary career. His works included Lin McLean, The Virginian, Lady Baltimore, and Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919. He also wrote a number of children's books. He died on July 21, 1938.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lady Baltimore; Americans in fiction
• Author: Owen Wister
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1906
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Sep 25, 2007
• ISBN: 1404769072, 9781404769076
• Length: 406 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Literary Criticism / General