Published in 1889, Standish of Standish is one of Jane Goodwin Austin’s historical novels about the Plymouth Colony, centering on the soldier Miles Standish. Austin wrote a series of well-researched, warmly narrated novels about the Pilgrims that were widely read in the late nineteenth century, bringing the founding of New England to life for American readers eager for their national mythology.
Affectionate toward its historical subject and carefully grounded in period detail, Standish of Standish remains an engaging piece of American historical fiction. Download the free public-domain EPUB at Better Gutenberg.