E.D.E.N. Southworth (Author of The Hidden Hand)

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E.D.E.N. Southworth

Born

in The United States

December 26, 1819

Died

June 30, 1899

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Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte (aka "E.D.E.N.") Southworth was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century. She was probably the most widely read author of that era.

Some of her earliest works appeared in The National Era, the newspaper that printed Uncle Tom's Cabin. Like her friend Harriet Beecher Stowe, she was a supporter of social change and women's rights. Her first novel, Retribution, a serial for the National Era, published in book form in 1846, was so well received that she gave up teaching and became a regular contributor to various periodicals, especially the New York Ledger.

Her best known work was The Hidden Hand. Most of her novels deal with the Southern United States during the post-American Ci ...more

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	The Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. Southworth, Joanne Dobson (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 1,990 ratings — published 1859 — 150 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ishmael 4.42 avg rating — 923 ratings — published 1850 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Self-Raised 4.40 avg rating — 666 ratings — published 1876 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Missing Bride 3.78 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1855 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Ah, it is impossible."

"No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!”
― E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril

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“Now, my dear Cap, if you don鈥檛 look sharp your hour is come! Nothing on earth will save you, Cap, but your own wits! For if ever I saw mischief in any one鈥檚 face, it is in that fellow鈥檚 that is eating you up with his great eyes at the same time that he is laughing at you with his big mouth! Now Cap, my little man, be a woman! ”
― E. D. E. N. Southworth, The Hidden Hand

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“There are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so.”
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