All posts tagged "fiction"
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26.7K14Arts and LeisureEdgar Allan Poe Writes A Story Based on a Boston Harbor Legend
Edgar Allan Poe based the macabre short story, The Cask of Amontillado, on a legend he heard while serving in a fort...
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9.8K9Arts and LeisureTabitha Tenney – New Hampshire’s First Best Selling Author
For the 50 years after 1799, Tabitha Tenney of Exeter was the best-selling novelist in the country, though she wasn’t necessarily proud...
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14.9K3Arts and LeisureDorothy West Gets Rediscovered by Jacqueline Onassis
Dorothy West at 88 lived quietly in the Martha’s Vineyard village of Oak Bluffs when Jacqueline Onassis encouraged her to finish her...
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43.5K5Arts and LeisureGeorge Francis Train, One of the Few Sane Men in a Mad, Mad World
George Francis Train, a nutty, attention-seeking businessman, in 1871 traveled around the world in 80 days. The feat caused a sensation, but...
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21.2K6Crime and ScandalAgnes Surriage and Her Journey from Tavern Wench to Lady of the Manor
In 1742, Charles Henry Frankland, the king’s collector for the port of Boston, visited Marblehead, Mass. — probably to assess the improvements...
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13.5K20MassachusettsA Day in the Life of Louisa May Alcott, Civil War Nurse
Louisa May Alcott, Civil War nurse, was 500 miles from her home in Concord, Mass., alone, doing painful duties all day long...
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