The Congressman's DaughterAlexandra, the attractive and stubborn only child of a Vermont congressman, is manipulated as a child and young woman by her domineering father, and then forced to marry his loathsome and malicious assistant when the congressman dies. Her story is one of subservience and longing, until the final, fatal day of her inevitable rebellion. |
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