Seven stories range from the Old Dominion to Europe: the title story, Little Missy, the sea fortunes of a boy named Dicky Carew, a Russian family called the Kourásoffs, a Virginia colonel of the old school, the Valbella brothers and Theodora. Seawell’s Virginia pieces lean heavily on Black dialect and plantation nostalgia.
Graceful magazine fiction of the 1890s; its racial language and attitudes are those of a white Southern writer of the time. Download the free EPUB.