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The Last of the Foresters: Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier
The Last of the Foresters: Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier
The Last of the Foresters: Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier
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'The Last of the Foresters' is a novel by …… It revolves around the lives of people living in Apple Orchard, a small Virginia town. One of its inhabitants is Redbud—she received this pretty name when she was a baby, and as usually befalls Virginia maidens, never has been able to get rid of it. Redbud is a lovely little creature, whom it is a delight to look upon. She has a profusion of light, curling hair, a fine fresh, tender complexion, deep, mild eyes, and a mouth of that innocent and artless expression which characterizes childhood. She is about sixteen, and has just emerged from short dresses, by particular request and gracious permission from Miss Lavinia, who is major-domo and manager in general. Pensiveness and laughter chase each other over her fresh little face, like floating clouds;—she is a true child of the South.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDigiCat
Release dateSep 15, 2022
ISBN8596547314004
The Last of the Foresters: Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier
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John Esten Cooke

John Esten Cooke was an American novelist, poet and Civil-War veteran best-known for his writings about his home state of Virginia. Although trained as a lawyer, Cooke was able to support himself with his writing from the very beginning of his career, and eventually produced more than 200 published works, including the novels The Virginia Comedians and The Wearing of the Gray, and biographies about General Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Although Cooke served under General J. E. B. Stuart during the American Civil War, he was not suited to military life and returned to his writing at the war’s end. Cooke died 1886 and is commemorated in the John Esten Cooke Fiction Award, awarded annually by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars.

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