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A roaring stream powers the mills of Sevenoaks, but the village's workers see little of the wealth they help create. Josiah Gilbert Holland opens his novel with a community where low wages, debt and dependence on daily work send struggling residents into the poorhouse. Above them stands the elaborate home of Robert Belcher, the mill owner, whose growing fortune gives the town's prosperity a sharply unequal shape.
The scene later shifts to a grand reception at the Palgrave mansion, where Mrs. Dillingham manages a procession of fashionable guests and Mrs. Belcher observes their flattering behavior. Holland pairs close descriptions of buildings and landscapes with pointed attention to money, public standing and personal influence. Readers interested in American social fiction will find a story that connects the pressures of an industrial village with the manners of wealthy city society.
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- Josiah Gilbert Holland
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- 313
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