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A Touch of Magic
A Touch of Magic
A Touch of Magic
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A Touch of Magic

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It’s strange that Hannah Trent and Nancy Shippen should be such friends—Hannah, the quiet Quaker, daughter of the Shippens’ seamstress, dreamer of dreams made of homespun; Nancy, landed gentry, child of caprice and privilege, a reigning beauty in damask and lace. And how differently too they are touched by what is happening in Philadelphia, by the commotion in all the Colonies set off at the signing of a paper on a fourth day of July!

For Nancy, as for her glamorous older cousin Peggy Shippen, the Revolution means beautiful clothes, gay parties, dashing young officers whose hardest battles are those in pursuit of imperious little hands. To the belles, the protected darlings of the great families, the Revolution means the most brilliant social life the staid old Quaker town has seen.

A life, Hannah discovers, in bitter contrast to the privations of more humble citizens, to the sick and wounded in Carpenter’s Mansion, to the livid fear of patriots deserting the city, to the fever-bright eyes of the ragged Rebels at Valley Forge.

For one whole morning at Valley Forge Hannah dares to hope that when the war is on Mark Allen will think of her as someone more than the girl who lives next door, back home in Elfreth’s Alley. Mark is a spy for General Washington and uses Hannah to help him get information about activities of the British.

When the war is over, happiness for the Shippen girls is ended too, as history of course records.

Peggy, brightest of the bright butterflies whose every breath seemed to Hannah drawn in magic, is the wife of the traitorous Arnold, and Nancy, once so eager for love, is married to a man of wealth she loathes.

Hannah’s own fate is this book’s secret alone, a story of adventure and romance that every girl will find as magical in turn as only the Cavanna touch can make it.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPapamoa Press
Release dateJan 13, 2019
ISBN9781789123081
A Touch of Magic
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Betty Cavanna

Betty Cavanna (June 24, 1909 - August 2001) was an American writer. Born Elizabeth Allen Cavanna in Camden, New Jersey, to Emily and Victor Cavanna, she grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey, just a few miles from Philadelphia. She majored in journalism at the New Jersey College for Women in New Brunswick from 1925-1929 and received the Bachelor of Letters degree. She also took art classes in New York and Philadelphia. Cavanna’s first job was as a reporter for the Bayonne Times from 1929-1931. In 1931 she joined the staff of the Westminster Press in Philadelphia and over the next ten years served as advertising manager and art director, buying illustrations for the Presbyterian story papers, Sunday magazines for children, short fiction and serials. She also wrote and sold material to Methodist and Baptist publishing firms. In 1940 she married Edward Talman Headley with whom she had a son. Cavanna had been writing short stories at night for some time before she became a full-time writer in 1941. She authored more than seventy books under the name of Betty Cavanna, as well as the pseudonyms Betsy Allen and Elizabeth Headley. She also wrote a nonfiction series called Around the World Today about young people living in various countries. The exotic settings of Cavanna’s fiction and nonfiction books reflect her travels to the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe, South America, Australia, Japan, the South Seas, Iran, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, China, eastern Africa and other locales. In the 1970s Cavanna turned to writing mysteries. Two of her books were runners-up for the Edgar Allan Poe Award: Spice Island Mystery in 1970 and the Ghost of Ballyhooly in 1972. Going on Sixteen and Secret Passage were Spring Book Festival honor books in 1946 and 1947. She also held an honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa for her outstanding contribution to the field of juvenile literature. Betty Cavanna passed away in 2001 at the age of 92.

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