Samantha Allen, who tells her stories in rich country dialect, loves the gentle Cicely best of all her thought-children. When Cicely’s marriage is darkened by her husband’s drinking, Samantha goes to war against the liquor trade, while her pompous husband Josiah dreams of a political career and tests her loyalty with every scheme.
Holley’s comic voice in the service of temperance and women’s suffrage, as funny as it is earnest. Download the free EPUB.