"Her Father's Daughter" by Gene Stratton-Porter (Pdf Edition) - Preview Available

Click Here to See Preview With Gene Stratton Porter we pass to a different order of “Best-Seller.” This lady has the requisite earnestness, with a very little humour, and an ardent purpose. Also, she enjoys a redeeming sincerity, and a love and knowledge of nature, deep and well-used, which proves, it seems, especially captivating to suburban dwellers with restricted gardens. Her great commercial success is the more extraordinary because of her determined American idiom, and the very different environment of her stories from that to which her readers in England are accustomed. ‘Her Father's Daughter' is typical of the author. Linda, the heroine, is an amazing girl of seventeen. Her qualities and accomplishments would knock the old-fashioned blue-stocking into a cocked hat (the metaphor shall not be mixed ); for, as Henry Anderson says of her,‘You’re the darndest kid! One minute you're smacking your lips over cream puffs, and the next you're going to the bottom of the Yellow Peril. I ne