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Three Heroines of New England Romance / Their true stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice Brown

Chapter 2: List of drawings
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Three lyrical historical sketches dramatize the lives of three New England women, presenting intimate episodes of courtship, social ascent, and provincial domestic existence. Each piece blends anecdote, evocative landscape description, and period detail to reconstruct personal choices and communal customs in coastal towns. The narratives move between quiet household scenes, public ceremonies, and moral dilemmas, using vivid topography and character portraiture to explore themes of love, duty, and social expectation while accompanied by engraved illustrations and occasional documentary notes.

List of drawings

Martha Hilton. “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head”
Frontispiece.
Priscilla at the spinning wheel14
“In his rough cradle by the sounding sea”17
Rose Standish21
“The daring and spirited girl”25
“Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word”29
Miles Standish33
“Up and down the sands I’d pace”36
“Her respected parent”37
“There, too, came Priscilla”41
“Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods”43
“First happened on the Mayflower”45
“The blushing Sabbatia”47
John Alden49
“Silvers its wave, its rustling wave”51
The wedding procession53
Grape-vine56
Woodbine57
The ships of the merchants59
“Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets”64
“Houses set ‘catty cornered’”65
“An old Marbleheader”67
“The solid dignity of the old Town House”69
“The old graveyard”71
“The wild azalea”74
“The blackberry clings and crowds”75
Butterfly75
“Again he came riding”77
“Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs”81
“She learned to play on the harpsichord”83
Frankland85
“Tragic battlings of heart and conscience”87
“All the more did she turn to Frankland”89
“The giant box and a few ancient trees”92
“At the banquets”93
“His ancestral home”95
“The opera was the finest on the continent”97
Agnes Surriage99
“They again visited Lisbon”102
“Married a wealthy banker of Chichester”104
“The little figure with the swishing bucket”108
“Sly damsels in Puritan caps”110
“Gold laced dandies at Newport”111
“Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her”
113
Where Governor Wentworth was born114
“A fishmonger in London”115
“He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic”117
“His snuff-boxes and his bowls”118
Governor Benning Wentworth119
Wentworth house at Little Harbor121
“Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms”123
“The great buck of his day”127
“Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning”131
“Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders”133
Old houses139
An old English church139
Picturesque barns140
The Weston flag-staff141
“Houses sheltered by great elms”142
“Past fertile farms”142
“Over picturesque stone bridges”143
“Here is a noble elm”144
The Wayside Inn, Sudbury145
Great elms at Hopkinton149
Shirley Place151
The Royall House, Medford153
Medford Square155
Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s156
Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard157
Some fishermen’s hats159
Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house161
“This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be”165
St. John’s, Portsmouth168
The Gardiner House and the linden169
Stoodley’s171
Plymouth, the home of Priscilla172
A country road173
Decorative designsTitle, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175
Initials15, 63, 109, 137