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Ethelyn's Mistake

By Mary Jane Holmes

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

On her wedding day, a young woman must decide if she can put aside her past and embrace the future, or if she will choose a different path.

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2004-04-01
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Summary

"Ethelyn's Mistake" by Mary Jane Holmes is a book that appears to take place in the late 1800's. It follows a young woman named Ethelyn Grant, who lives in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and faces a tough choice about love and what society expects from her. As her wedding day to Richard Markham arrives, Ethelyn is caught between her feelings for him and her memories of her cousin, Frank Van Buren. The story highlights Ethelyn's inner conflict as she questions if marriage is the right choice for her, struggling with her past and the future that is laid out before her. Ethelyn's conversations with her Aunt Barbara let the reader know she is fighting some emotion within herself.

About the Author

Mary Jane Holmes was an American author who published 39 novels, as well as short stories. Her first novel sold 250,000 copies; and she had total sales of 2 million books in her lifetime, second only to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her books included: "Tempest and Sunshine" (1854), "English Orphans" (1855), "Homestead on the Hillside" (1855), "Lena Rivers" (1856), "Meadow Brook" (1857), "Dora Deane" (1858), "Cousin Maude" (1860), "Marian Gray" 186^, "Hugh Worthington" (1864), "Cameron Vide" (1867). "Rose Mather" (1868), "Ethelyn’s Mistake" (1869), "Edna Browning" (1872), "Mildred" (1877), "Forest House" (1879), "Daisy Thornton," "Queenie Hetherton" (1883), "Christmas Stories" (1884), "Bessie's Fortune" (1885). "Gretchen" (1887), "Marguerite" (1891).

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