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Elizabeth Garver Jordan
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Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1865-1947) was an American journalist, author, and editor known for her work in both fiction and non-fiction. She is perhaps best known for editing "The Sturdy Oak" and for her involvement with the magazine "Harper's Bazaar," where she served as editor from 1900 to 1913. Jordan also authored novels like "Many Kingdoms" and "May Iverson—Her Book." Throughout her career, she championed social causes, especially women's rights and suffrage.
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VARICK'S LADY O' DREAMS Varick laid down the book with which he had beguiled an hour of the night, turned off the electric light in the shaded globe that hung above his head, pulled the sheets a little nearer his chin, reversed his pillow that he might rest his cheek more gratefully on the cooler linen, stretched, yawned, and composed himself to slumber with an absolutely untroubled...
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BARBARA'S WEDDING The little city of Devondale, Ohio, had shaken off for one night at least the air of aristocratic calm that normally distinguished it from the busy mill towns on its right and left. Elm Avenue, its leading residence street, usually presented at this hour only an effect of watchful trees, dark shrubbery, shaded lamps, and remote domestic peace. Now, however, it had blossomed into...
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I. FIRST MEMORIES My father's ancestors were the Shaws of Rothiemurchus, in Scotland, and the ruins of their castle may still be seen on the island of Loch-an-Eilan, in the northern Highlands. It was never the picturesque castle of song and story, this home of the fighting Shaws, but an austere fortress, probably built in Roman times; and even to-day the crumbling walls which alone are left of it...
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