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E. D. E. N. Southworth

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (December 26, 1819 - June 30, 1899) was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century. She was probably was of the most widely read author of that era.

Life and Career

E.D.E.N. Southworth moved out to Wisconsin after graduating from Washington, D.C.. She was a schoolteacher for a time until her marriage to Frederick Hamilton Southworth, an inventor

She began to write stories to support herself and her children when he husband deserted her in 1844. Her earliest works appeared in The National Era, the newspaper that printed Uncle Tom's Cabin. The bulk of her work appeared as a serial in Robert Bonner's The New York Ledger, which was widely read in the 1850s and 1860s. Like her friend Harriet Beecher Stowe, she was a supporter of social change and rights for women, but she was not nearly as active on these issues.

Her best known work was The Hidden Hand, originally published as The Ledger in 1859. Most of her novels deal with the South during the antebellum era.

Bibliography

note - most of Southworth's novels were serialised before their publications, sometimes under different titles.

  • Retribution; or The Vale of Shadows: A Tale of Passion (1849)
  • The Deserted Wife (1850)
  • The Mother-in-Law; or The Isle of Rays (1851)
  • Shannondale (1851)
  • Virginia and Magdalene; or The Foster Sisters (1852)
  • The Discarded Daughter; or the Children of the Ilse: A Tale of the Chesapeake (1852)
  • The Curse of Clifton (1852)
  • Old Neighborhoods and New Settlements; or Christmas Evening Legends (1853)
  • The Lost Heiress (1854)
  • The Missing Bride; or, Miriam the Avenger (1855)
  • The Widow's Son (1857)
  • India: The Pearl of Pearl River (1856)
  • Viva; or The Secret of Power (1857)
  • The Lady of the Isle; or, The Island Princess (1859)
  • The Haunted Homestead and Other Nouvellettes (1860)
  • The Gipsy's Prophecy: A Tale of Real Life (1861)
  • Hickory Hall; or The Outcast: A Romance of the Blue Ridge (1861)
  • The Broken Engagement; or, Speaking theTruth for a Day (1862)
  • Love's Labor Won (1862)
  • The Fatal Marriage (1863)
  • The Bridal Eve (1864)
  • Allworth Abbey (1865)
  • The Bride of Llewellyn (1866)
  • The Fortune Seeker; or, The Bridal Day (1866)
  • The Coral Lady; or The Bronzed Beauty of Paris (1867)
  • Fair Play; or The Test of Lone Isle (1868)
  • How He Won Her: A Sequel to Fair Play (1969)
  • The Changed Brides (1869)
  • The Brides Fate: A Sequel to "The Changed Brides" (1869)
  • The Family Doom; or The Sin of a Countess (1869)
  • The Maiden Widow: A Sequel to the "Family Doom" (1870)
  • Cruel as the Grave (1871)
  • Tried for Her Life (1871)
  • The Lost Heir of Linlithgow (1872)
  • The Noble Lord: The Sequel to "The Lost Heir of Linlithgow (1872)
  • A Beautiful Fiend; or, Through the Fire (1873)
  • Victor's Triumphs: The Sequel to "A Beautiful Fiend" (1874)
  • Ishmael; or, In the Depths (1876)
  • Self-Raised; or, From the Depths: A Sequel to "Ishmael." (1876)
  • The Red Hill Tragedy: A Novel (1877)
  • The Bride's Ordeal: A Novel (1877)
  • Her Love or Her Life: A Sequel to "The Bride's Ordeal: A Novel (1877)
  • Sybil Brotherton: A Novel (1879)
  • The Trail of the Serpent; or, The Homicide at Hawke Hall (1880)
  • Why Did He Wed Her? (1881)
  • For Whose Sake? A Sequel to "Why Did He Wed Her?" (1884)
  • A Deed Without a Name (1886)
  • Dorothy Harcourt's Secret: Sequel to a "A Deed Without a Name." (1886)
  • To His Fate: A Sequel to "Dorothy Harcourt's Secret" (no date)
  • When Love Gets Justice: A Sequel "To His Fate." (no date)
  • The Hidden Hand (1888)
  • A Leap in the Dark: A Novel (1889)
  • Unknown; or the Mystery of Raven Rocks (1889)
  • Nearest and Dearest: A Novel (1889)
  • Little Nea's Engagement: A Sequel to "Nearest and Dearest." (1889)
  • For Woman's Love: A Novel (1890)
  • An Unrequited Love: a Sequel to For Woman's Love (1890)
  • The Lost Lady of Lone (1890)
  • The Unloved Wife: A Novel (1890)
  • When the Shadow's Darken: A Sequel to the Unloved Wife (no date)
  • Lilith: A Sequel to "The Unloved Wife" (1891)
  • Gloria: A Novel (1891)
  • David Lindsay: A Sequel to Gloria (1891)
  • "Em": A Novel (1892)
  • Em's Husband (1892)
  • The Mysterious Marriage: A Sequel to "A Leap in the Dark" (1893)
  • A Skeleton in the Closet: A Novel (1893)
  • Brandon Coyle's Wife: A Sequel to "A Skeleton in the Closet" (1893)
  • Only a Girl's Heart: A Novel (1893)
  • The Rejected Bride (1894)
  • Gertrude Haddon (1894)
  • Sweet Love's Atonement: A Novel (1904)
  • Zenobia's Suitors: Sequel to Sweet Love's Atonement (1904)
  • The Struggle of a Soul: A Sequel to "The Lost Lady of Lone" (1904)
  • Her Mother's Secret (1910)
  • Love's Bitterest Cup: A Sequel to Her Mother's Secret" (1910)
  • When Shadow's Die: A Sequel to "Love's Bitterest Cup" (1910)
  • When Love Commands (no date)
  • Fulfilling Her Destiny: A Sequel to When Love Commands (no date)
  • The Initials: A Story of Modern Life (no date)
Last updated: 10-29-2005 02:13:46