Katherine's Sheaves
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English readers who enjoy classic women's fiction and domestic stories
- Literature enthusiasts wanting to understand late nineteenth-century American popular fiction formulas
- Readers needing light original reading for spare moments
- Readers interested in old-era female images and social mores
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer modern narrative technique and complex psychology
- Those with limited English reading experience who need extensive annotation
Reading tips
- Skim the chapter titles first to get a sense of the story's stages before starting
- Treat misunderstandings and trials as plot nodes, and summarize the heroine's situation after each chapter
- Mark strongly period-specific wording lightly; no need to look up everything
- Read alongside women's fiction of the same period and note similarities and differences in narrative formulas
About the publisher
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About the author
Mrs. Georgie Sheldon (1843–1926), born Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs, was an American writer of popular fiction, born in Wrentham, Massachusetts. She began publishing in 1869 and during the 1880s serialized forty-seven romance novels for the New York Weekly. Over her lifetime she wrote more than a hundred works; eight are held in this collection, including Virgie's Inheritance, Katherine's Sheaves, His Heart's Queen and Mona; or, The Secret of a Royal Mirror. Her novels typically revolve around emotional entanglements, inheritances and questions of identity, with intricate plots and happy endings that suited the tastes of a mass readership. The American writer Theodore Dreiser named her one of the three most popular authors of her day. Public information on her early life and education is limited.
