Aunt Sue Brocade Becomes Lesson in Middle Class Pride
In Maryville a family receives Aunt Sue’s brocade dress via a mystery box, hoping for a wedding gown fit. The gift reveals postwar poverty and social pressure as the Lamdin clan pretends wealth, faces foreclosure threats, and learns to curb vanity, ending with a blunt family warning about debt and false appearances.
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Tamdin
Johm
Jessica
Johnnie
Lumdins
Louisa
Pierce
Mrs. Lamdin
Susan
Jane
Frances Stewart
Lamdin
Ladies’ Literary Club of
Maryville
Samdhi
Ine
Mars
Lamdim
Sue
Uibbard
Bily
Bengy
Johanna
Isa
Lonlea
Aunt Sue
Aice Weiman
Aunt Sus Brocade by Jeannette H Walworth
A brief notice announcing Aunt Sue's Brocade by Jeannette H Walworth, authored in the early twentieth century and credited to the American Press Association. The item signals a literary listings notice with author and copyright attribution.
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Caroline County
Orphans’ Court
Maryland
Howard M. Beayaian
William W. Noble
Toward Aml
American Press Association
Blunders by Novelists Highlight Early Tech Mismatches
A critic notes famous authors like Sir Walter Besanton and Witkie Collins made factual slips about travel and technology. Besanton’s tale misplaces ships and dates around 1819 while Collins misuses telegrams and railways not yet in operation. The passage calls out blind spots in period accuracy for landmark works.
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Eykins
Providence
Burnaby
Ragland
America
Liverpool
Witkie Collins
Dierne Wood
London
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