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A comic travelogue follows a plainspoken countrywoman and her companion as they journey to a fashionable summer resort and nearby attractions, narrating their visits to mineral springs, lakes, encampments, and social gatherings. Episodes alternate between anecdotal set pieces—drives, lawn parties, and meetings—and wry reflections on contemporary leisure, domestic dislocation, and social pretension. The narrator’s ironic, homespun voice exposes contrasts between simple household values and ostentatious seasonal amusements, while encounters with local characters provide humorous commentary on manners, courtship, and the changing rhythms of community life; the sequence closes with an accident that reshapes events.

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Title: Samantha at Saratoga

Author: Marietta Holley

Release date: September 1, 2002 [eBook #3425]
Most recently updated: August 8, 2021

Language: English

Credits: an anonymous volunteer

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Samantha at Saratoga

by Marietta Holley


Marietta Holley (1836-1926) has been called America’s first female humorist. She was an extremely popular author and a well-known suffragette. Holley, who never married, published her first books as Josiah Allen’s Wife, only adding her own name after her success was established. She lived in an 18 room home she built in Jefferson County, New York and drove a Pierce-Arrow. Her legacy of more than 20 books has mostly been forgotten today but they are still very good reading.

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TO THE GREAT ARMY OF SUMMER TRAMPS

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

BY THEIR COMRADE AND FELLOW WANDERER

THE AUTHOR

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Contents

PREFACE
CHAPTER I. SAMANTHA AT SARATOGA
CHAPTER II. ARDELIA TUTT AND HER MOTHER
CHAPTER III. THE CHERITY OF THE JONESVILLIANS
CHAPTER IV. ARDELIA AND ABRAM GEE
CHAPTER V. WE ARRIVE AT SARATOGA
CHAPTER VI. SARATOGA BY DAYLIGHT
CHAPTER VII. SEEING THE DIFFERENT SPRINGS
CHAPTER VIII. JOSIAH AND SAMANTHA TAKE A LONG WALK
CHAPTER IX. JOSIAH’S FLIRTATIONS
CHAPTER X. MISS G. WASHINGTON FLAMM
CHAPTER XI. VISIT TO THE INDIAN ENCAMPMENT
CHAPTER XII. A DRIVE TO SARATOGA LAKE
CHAPTER XIII. VISITS TO NOTABLE PLACES
CHAPTER XIV. LAKE GEORGE AND MOUNT McGREGOR
HAPTER XV. ADVENTURES AT VARIOUS SPRINGS
CHAPTER XVI. AT A LAWN PARTY
CHAPTER XVII. A TRIP TO SCHUYLERVILLE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE MEETING
CHAPTER XIX. ST. CHRISTINA’S HOME
CHAPTER XX. AN ACCIDENT WITH RESULTS