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    Capitola’s Peril
    The Hidden Hand
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    Capitola Black Series

    By E.D.E.N. Southworth

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    About this series

    A sequel to “The Hidden Hand,” a romance novel by E. D. E. N. Southworth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSIN Libris Digital
    Release dateMar 31, 2019
    Capitola’s Peril
    The Hidden Hand

    Titles in the series (2)

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      The Hidden Hand
      The Hidden Hand

      The Hidden Hand

      E.D.E.N. Southworth
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      E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and her Capitola Black, or Black Cap—a cross-dressing, adventure-seeking girl-woman—was so well-loved that the book was serialized three times between 1859 and 1888 and was dramatized in forty different versions. When we first meet sharp and witty Capitola she is living among beggars and street urchins, and dressed as a boy because a boy can get work and be safe, whereas a girl is left to starve for want of “proper” employment. Unknown to her, Capitola has a very rich elderly guardian who finds her at a providential moment and takes her back to his palatial mansion where she finds herself “decomposing above ground for want of having my blood stirred.” But not to fear. There are bandits, true-loves, evil men, long-lost mothers, and sweet women friends in Capitola’s future—not to mention thunder storms, kidnap attempts, and duels. The pace is fast, the action wonderfully unbelievable. This is escape literature at its nineteenth-century best, with a woman at its center who makes you feel strong, daring, and reckless.

      E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and her Capitola Black, or Black Cap—a cross-dressing, adventure-seeking girl-woman—was so well-loved that the book was serialized three times between 1859 and 1888 and was dramatized in forty different versions. When we first meet sharp and witty Capitola she is living among beggars and street urchins, and dressed as a boy because a boy can get work and be safe, whereas a girl is left to starve for want of “proper” employment. Unknown to her, Capitola has a very rich elderly guardian who finds her at a providential moment and takes her back to his palatial mansion where she finds herself “decomposing above ground for want of having my blood stirred.” But not to fear. There are bandits, true-loves, evil men, long-lost mothers, and sweet women friends in Capitola’s future—not to mention thunder storms, kidnap attempts, and duels. The pace is fast, the action wonderfully unbelievable. This is escape literature at its nineteenth-century best, with a woman at its center who makes you feel strong, daring, and reckless.

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      Capitola’s Peril
      Capitola’s Peril

      Capitola’s Peril

      E.D.E.N. Southworth
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      A sequel to “The Hidden Hand,” a romance novel by E. D. E. N. Southworth.

      A sequel to “The Hidden Hand,” a romance novel by E. D. E. N. Southworth.

    Author

    E.D.E.N. Southworth

    E.D.E.N. Southworth (1819–1899) was born in Washington, DC, to Susannah Wailes and Charles LeCompte Nevitte, a Virginia merchant. In 1840 she married inventor Frederick H. Southworth. After the birth of their second child in 1844, Frederick abandoned his family in search of gold. Southworth began to write stories to support herself and her children, writing more than sixty novels in the latter part of the nineteenth century and becoming the most popular American novelist of her day.

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