YOU'D LIKE TO THINK THE AUTHOR WOULD BE JOSIAH ALLEN...
Marietta Holley. G.W. Dillingham: New York: 1905. 8vo. 471pp. + 5pp. publisher ads. Decorative brown boards w. red lettering to front and to spine.
The author is not Josiah Allen. Bow-chicka-bow-wow...
Turns out the author is Marietta Holley. Double-bow chicka-bow-wow...
No. The book does not live up to those expectations.
However, if you like gentle satire about the inequality of the sexes written in rustic dialect by an author described as "the female Mark Twain" (does that mean that Mark Twain is the male Marietta Holley...?? Hm.) then this IS the book for you.
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