Majorie Daw is an epistolary story that caused quite a sensation after its publication in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1873 for its surprise ending. "When you spoke in your first letter of seeing a young girl swinging in a hammock under your chamber window, I was somehow strangely drawn to her...You seem to be describing a woman I have known in...More
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly. He was also known for his semi-autobiographical book 'The Story of a Bad Boy', which established the "bad boy's book" subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature, and for his poetry, which included "The Unguarded Gates".
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly. He was also known for his semi-autobiographical book 'The Story of a Bad Boy', which established the "bad boy's book" subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature, and for his poetry, which included "The Unguarded Gates".
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Majorie Daw is an epistolary story that caused quite a sensation after its publication in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1873 for its surprise ending. "When you spoke in your first letter of seeing a young girl swinging in a hammock under your chamber window, I was somehow strangely drawn to her...You seem to be describing a woman I have known in some previous state of existence, or dreamed of in this."
Thomas Aldrich
