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The San Rosario Ranch

By Maud Howe Elliott

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

A young woman leaves her familiar life, embarking on a journey to California, where she encounters family she never knew and faces love in a new, unexpected landscape of ranches and art.

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2013-03-09
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Summary

"The San Rosario Ranch" by Maud Howe Elliott is a story set in 19th-century California, telling of Millicent Almsford's journey from Italy to live with newly discovered relatives at the San Rosario Ranch. Here, she faces the challenges of cultural differences and missing her old life while forming connections with Barbara Deering and her family. As Millicent adapts, the ranch becomes a place of family and new relationships, including a possible connection with John Graham, a local artist, weaving a tale of adjustment and subtle romance in a changing world.

About the Author

Maud Howe Elliott was an American novelist, most notable for her Pulitzer prize-winning collaboration with her sisters, Laura E. Richards and Florence Hall, on their mother's biography The Life of Julia Ward Howe (1916). Her other works included A Newport Aquarelle (1883); Phillida (1891); Kasper Craig (1892); Mammon, later published as Honor: A Novel (1893); Roma Beata, Letters from the Eternal City (1903); Sun and Shadow in Spain (1908) ;The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe (1911); Three Generations (1923); Lord Byron's Helmet (1927); John Elliott, The Story of an Artist (1930); My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford (1934); and This Was My Newport (1944).

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