Mrs. Red Pepper
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About the author
Grace S. Richmond (1866–1959) was an American author. Thirteen of her works are held in this collection, including The Brown Study, On Christmas Day In The Evening, The Twenty-Fourth of June: Midsummer's Day, Strawberry Acres, The Second Violin, The Indifference of Juliet, Red Pepper's Patients, and The Whistling Mother. Because public information is limited, details of her life are difficult to establish. Her works, however, show that she wrote about family life, holiday scenes, and everyday human relationships in a gentle, delicate style marked by warmth and moral concern, often revealing character and emotional change through ordinary events. Her popular fiction, written for general readers in plain and lifelike language, had a certain influence among readers of her time.
