Caroline Lee Hentz

Caroline Lee Hentz
Caroline Lee Hentz (1800–1856) was an American novelist and playwright, known for her pro-slavery and Southern sympathies. She gained popularity in the 19th century for her sentimental novels, especially "The Planter’s Northern Bride" (1854), which was a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Hentz's works often centered on themes of domesticity, Southern culture, and women’s roles in society. Her other notable works include "Linda; or, The Young Pilot of the Belle Creole" and "Marcus Warland, or The Long Moss Spring."

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ERNEST LINWOOD. CHAPTER I. With an incident of my childhood I will commence the record of my life. It stands out in bold prominence, rugged and bleak, through the haze of memory. I was only twelve years old. He might have spoken less harshly. He might have remembered and pitied my youth and sensitiveness, that tall, powerful, hitherto kind man,—my preceptor, and, as I believed, my friend. Listen to... more...

CHAPTER I. “First Fear his hand its skill to try,Amid the chords bewildered laid—And back recoiled, he knew not why,E’en at the sound himself had made.”— Little Helen sat in her long flannel night-dress, by the side of Miss Thusa, watching the rapid turning of her wheel, and the formation of the flaxen thread, as it glided out, a more and more attenuated filament, betwixt the dexterous... more...