A Little Country Girl
Candace Arden has never seen the ocean. Orphaned early, she grew up on a farm in the Connecticut hills near North Tolland, raised by an elderly great-aunt who approved of her mainly for being a quiet child. Then an invitation arrives from a rich cousin. Candace travels alone down Narragansett Bay on the little steamer Eolus to Newport, where Cousin Kate and her three daughters are opening a season of dinner parties, cliff walks, and picnics. She turns seventeen there, learning the rules of a fashionable table and, more painfully, that her cousins are half ashamed of her. Susan Coolidge, who had lived in Newport since 1870, wrote this 1885 story with a light hand. The country girl is never the joke, and the polished family has as much to learn as she does.
About the Author
Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905), an American writer born in Cleveland, Ohio. She is best remembered for her What Katy Did series, which began in 1872 and followed the lively Carr children, becoming a fixture of nineteenth-century fiction for…
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