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Marigold

Chapter 40: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
By Edith Allonby
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The narrative is set in Lucifram, a shadowy mirror-world of contraries where a glittering court and hellish outskirts coexist. It follows Marigold, a princess whose trials and choices expose competing moral forces—selfishness, duty, and the value of work for its own sake—through fantastical episodes and satirical encounters. A cast including a scheming prince, a helpful maid, priests, a dispenser of gifts, and a cheery frog shaped by suffering populate allegorical scenes that blend fairy-tale machinery with social observation. The work moves through framed introductions and interludes into a sequence of episodic adventures that probe character and motive rather than realistic detail.

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(In preparation.)

London: GREENING & Co., Limited; and all Booksellers.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

The Table of Contents was automatically generated.

Numerous spelling and punctuation anomalies in the final advertising section have been left untouched.

Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the ends of their paragraphs.

Itemized changes from the original text:

  • On page 2, inserted quote mark after period, near “which they will read to the end”
  • On page 3, inserted quote mark after JEWEL SOWERS, near “THE AUTHOR OF”
  • On page 14, changed “god-like” to “godlike”, near “such, and everything in”
  • On page 69, changed “tread-mill” to “treadmill”, near “of Fate”
  • On page 92, changed “rose garden” to “rose-garden”, near “the sweet-scented”
  • On page 109, changed “uuexpectedly” to “unexpectedly”, near “I was called away”
  • On page 159, changed “bed-time” to “bedtime”, near “It is Timothy’s”
  • On page 184, changed “arm’s-length” to “arm’s length”, near “held her roughly at”
  • On page 231, changed “womanlike” to “woman-like”, near “having one man there for a protection”
  • On page 245, changed “lovesick” to “love-sick”, near “maidens and their curious”
  • On page 256, changed “fire-light” to “firelight”, near “in the flickering”
  • On page 268, changed “beggar folk” to “beggar-folk”, near “And you called us”