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One Woman's History by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A dramatic tale of Jessie Gifford whose troubled marriage to Albert Gifford leads to emotional collapse after a stillbirth and a new passion with Dwight Hemstead. Jessie finds renewal through music and books at Dawn Hill, but a forbidden longing and a foretold fate test her loyalty and honor before a final, tragic sail for India.
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Albert Gifford
Everglade
Jessie
Promlee
Repose
Jessi
Mr. Gifford
Long Branch
Wortlers
Albert
Mrs. Rogers
Hill
Dwight Hemstead
Dawn Hill
Gifford
Jim
Jessie Gifford
Dwight
India
Mr. Hemstead
Heaven
Hell
Down Hill
England
London
Paris
America
C.D. Wanker
Yorkshire
Constantinople
Byerson & Brows
New York
Duncan Wood
Islip
L. L
Kansas
Richard Grant White
New York City
Gov. Oelesby
Thinoit
E. F. Goodspeed
Tontz
Bloomington
Cyrus W. Freip
Manhattan Railway
Western Union
Carroll
Washington County
Louisiana
San Francisco
Dublin
Haughton Bros
Bath
Cleveland
Grand Army of the Republic
White House
Rouen
Bartholdi
United States
Morton
John T. Mackay
Philadelphia
William Young
Commercial National Bank
Reading
Chas
Harper
Chicago
Waukesha
Wis
Sparks
General Land Office
Stig
L. E. Eldredge
Overton Conn
Nashville
Everett B. Buchanan
Thomas C. Layton
Buchanan
Layton
Eldredge
Miles City
Montana Stock-growers’ Association
Northwest
Territory Association
Thomas J. Ryan
B. F. Potts
M. M. Harmon
Miles. City
BR. B. Harrison
Helena