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The Brother Clerks

by Mary Ashley Townsend

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1857
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The Brother Clerks is an 1857 novel by Mary Ashley Townsend (1832-1901), the New Orleans poet and writer who became the city's unofficial laureate and wrote under the pen name Xariffa. Set among young clerks in antebellum New Orleans, the novel touches the slavery and commerce of the city she knew intimately. Townsend was later chosen to write odes for great civic occasions across the South. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Mary Ashley Townsend

Mary Ashley Townsend contributed poetry and fiction to nineteenth-century literary life in New Orleans. The Brother Clerks, her early novel, follows young men entering commercial employment and uses their contrasting choices to explore ambition, temptation, friendship, and moral responsibility.

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First published
1857
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
272
Language
English
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