May, Sophie (1833–1906)

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How I happened to marry

By Sophie May

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317-325	January 1884 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A castle in Spain (Book); Plympton, A.G. (Almira George); Marie, Adrien-Emmanuel; “Alice Thro' the Looking Glass,” and other fairy tales for children (Book); An autobiography (Book); Green, Anna Katharine; Trollope, Anthony; Arius the Libyan (Book); Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron; Belinda (Book); Stephens, C.A. (Charles Asbury); H., C.; Thaxter, Celia; Nordhoff, Charles; Classic heroic ballads, selected by the editor of “Quiet hours.” (Book); Classic tales by Maria Edgeworth (Book); David, king of Israel: his life and its lessons (Book); Greey, Edward; Roe, Edward Payson; Abbey, Edwin Austin; “Elegy in a country church-yard” (Poem); “Elegy written in a country church-yard” (Poem); Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams); Fortune's fool (Book); Freiligrath-Kroeker, Käthe, Frau; God and the future life (Book); “Good night and good morning” (Poem); Oliver, Grace A. (Grace Atkinson); Hand and ring (Book); Fenn, Harry; French, Harry W. (Harry Willard); Butterworth, Hezekiah; His sombre rivals (Book); Homer; Pyle, Howard; Trowbridge, J.T. (John Townsend); De Mille, James; Otis, James; Ingelow, Jean; Newman, John Henry; White, John S.(John Stewart); Hawthorne, Julian; Kittyleen (Book); Lead, kindly light (Poem); Braddon, M.E. (Mary Elizabeth); Edgeworth, Maria; Tileston, Mary Wilder; Kouns, Nathan Chapman; Optic, Oliver; Our boys in China. The thrilling story of two young Americans, Scott and Paul Clayton wrecked in the China sea, on their return from India, with their strange adventures in China (Book); Phil and his friends (Book); Plutarch; Poems for children (Book); Raising the “Pearl” (Book); Broughton, Rhoda; Stoddard, Richard Henry; Keep, Robert P. (Robert Porter); Southey, Robert; Snug Harbor; or, the Champlain mechanics (Book); Herrick, Sophia M'llvaine Bledsoe; May, Sophie; The alphabet children (Book); The bear worshippers of Yezo and the island of Karafuto (Saghalin); or, the adventures of the Jewett family and their friend Oto Nambo (Book); The boys' and girls' Plutarch; being parts of the “Lives” of Plutarch (Book); The high tide on the coast of Lincolnshire, 1571 (Poem); The Knockabout Club in the tropics (Book); The life of Nelson (Book); The literary life (Book); The merry adventures of Robin Hood of great renown in Nottinghamshire (Book); The wonders of plant life under the microscope (Book); Gray, Thomas; Three Vassar girls abroad. Rambles of three college girls on a vacation trip through France and Spain for amusement and instruction. With their haps and mishaps (Book); Under the red flag. A novel (Book); Une journée d'enfant, compositions inédites. Vingt planches en héliogravure de Dujardin (Book); G., W.; Linton, W.J. (William James); Severn, Walter; Taylor, William M. (William Mackergo); Shakespeare, William; Walsh, William Shepard; Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic. A summer trip of the Zigzag club through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (Book) PDF IMAGES
633-642	March 1883 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: Giberne, Agnes; Strickland, Agnes; Lang, Andrew; Stephens, C.A. (Charles Asbury); Coffin, Charles Carleton; Gibbon, Charles; Reid, Christian; Murray, David Christie; Doctor Grimshawe's secret; a romance (Book); Early days of Christianity (Book); O'Donovan, Edmond; Hale, Edward Everett; Stack, Edward; Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams); Holt, Emily Sarah; Marshall, Emma; Shaw, Flora L.(Flora Louise); Farrar, Frederic William; Rawlinson, George; Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott; Heart of steel. A novel (Book); Helen of Troy (Book); Hester Stanley at St. Marks (Book); History of the Pacific States of North America. Volume 1-3, Central America (Book); Bancroft, Hubert Howe; Payn, James; Janet, a poor heiress (Book); Symonds, John Addington; Macduff, John R. (John Ross); Hawthorne, Julian; Kit: a memory. A novel (Book); Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton; Brush, Mary Elizabeth Quackenbush; Lakeman, Mary; Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, rear-admiral United States navy (Book); Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Paul and Persis; or, The revolutionary struggle in the Mohawk Valley (Book); Phyllis Browne (Book); Quits at last: an account in seven items (Book); Francillon, R.E. (Robert Edward); Red and white (Book); Renaissance in Italy (Book); Rex and Regina; or, the song of the river (Book); Kaufman, Rosalie; Ruth Eliot's dream (Book); Shakespeare's comedy of Pericles (Book); Six months in Persia (Book); May, Sophie; Stories of discovery as told by discoverers (Book); The days of chivalry; or, How Aimery the bright-of-face became page, squire, and knight (Book); The golden shaft (Book); The house of a merchant prince; a novel of New York (Book); The Merv Oasis; travels and adventures east of the Caspian during the years 1879-80-81, including five months' residence among the Tekkés of Merv (Book); The queens of England (Book); The seventh great oriental monarchy; or, the geography, history, and antiquities of the Sassanian or new Persian empire. Collected and illustrated from ancient and modern sources (Book); The story of a shell (Book); The young moose hunters (Book); Three Vassar girls abroad. Rambles of three college girls on a vacation trip through France and Spain for amusement and instruction. With their haps and mishaps (Book); Twilight talks; or, easy lessons on things around us (Book); Val Strange. A story of the Primrose Way (Book); Bishop, W.H. (William Henry); Adams, W.H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport); Rolfe, W.J. (William James); Shakespeare, William; Winning his way (Book) PDF IMAGES
462-469	February 1879 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A century of American literature, 1776-1876 (Book); A dark inheritance (Book); A face illumined (Book); A history of American literature (Book); A masque of poets. Including Guy Vernon, a novelette in verse (Book); A practical treatise on china painting in America, with some suggestions as to decorative art (Book); Aldrich; Church, Alfred John; Kappes, Alfred; Angelo: the circus boy (Book); Green, Anna Katharine; Smith, Annie Lenthal; Apple-blossoms; verses of two children (Book); Hodge, Archibald Alexander; Toplady, Augustus Montague; Shillaber, B.P. (Benjamin Penhallow); Piton, Camille; Thaxter, Celia; Hodge, Charles; Conscience, with preludes on current events (Book); Goodale, D.H.R. (Dora Hill Read); Discussions in church polity (Book); Drift-weed (Book); Kirkland, E.S. (Elizabeth Stansbury); Clark, Edson L. (Edson Lyman); Roe, Edward Payson; Eastman, Elaine Goodale; Goodrich, Elizabeth P.; Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Sewall, Frank; Genevieve of Brabant (Book); Bullen, George; McKnight, George; Lathrop, George Parsons; Macpherson, Gerardine (Bate) Mrs.; Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Beers, Henry Augustin; Johnston, Henry Phelps; Coates, Henry Troth; Scudder, Horace Elisha; Bonar, Horatius; Hymns of the nativity, and other poems (Book); Ike Partington and his friends (Book); “Iris: the romance of an opal ring” (Poem); Smillie, James David; Fothergill, Jessie; Lange, Johann Peter; Symonds, John Addington; Cook, Joseph; Ballard, Julia P. (Julia Perkins); Landseer (Book); Life and faith, sonnets (Book); Lindsay's luck. A love story (Book); Little Pitchers (Book); Humphrey, Lizbeth Bullock; Alcott, Louisa May; Toland, M.B.M. (Mary Bertha McKenzie); Braddon, M.E. (Mary Elizabeth); Sweetser, M.F. (Moses Foster); Hay, Mary Cecil; Meg: a pastoral. And other poems (Book); Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson (Book); Modern England, 1820-1874 (Book); Tyler, Moses Coit; Mother Goose's melodies (Book); Mother Michel and her cat (Book); Willing, Charles, Mrs.; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Oratory and orators (Book); Browning, Oscar; Schaff, Philip; Poems (Book); Pretty Polly Pemberton (Book); Rock of ages (Book); Whitman, Sarah Helen; Shakespeare's comedy of Much ado about nothing (Book); Shelley (Book); Short history of France for young people (Book); May, Sophie; Stories from Virgil (Book); The Bodleys on wheels (Book); The campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn (Book); The fireside encyclopoedia of poetry (Book); The first violin; a novel (Book); The land of Burns (Book); The land of Burns (Poem); The Leavenworth case: a lawyer's story (Book); The mistletoe bough (Book); The races of European Turkey (Book); The scarlet oak, and other poems (Book); The school-boy (Book); Under the lilacs (Book); Rolfe, W.J. (William James); Bruce, Wallace; Durant, William; Fawcett, William Lyman; Mathews, William; Shakespeare, William; Young folks' opera (Book); Gustafson, Zadel Barnes Buddington PDF IMAGES
467-471	February 1878 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: About old story-tellers (Book); All around a pallette (Book); All for Christ: a sketch of the life and labors of Rev. Charles H. Payson (Book); Little, Arthur; Aunt Jo's scrap-bag (Book); Payson, Charles H.; Lamb, Charles; Christianity and humanity: a series of sermons (Book); Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (Book); Geikie, Cunningham; Mears, David O. (David Otis); Mitchell, Donald Grant; Dora's housekeeping (Book); Kirkland, E.S. (Elizabeth Stansbury); Early New England interiors: sketches in Salem, Marblehead, Portsmouth and Kittery (Book); De Leon, Edwin; Whipple, Edwin Percy; Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams); Parkman, Francis; Wright, G.N. (George Newenham); Chaney, George Leonard; Hector Servadac; or, The career of a comet (Book); Van Laun, Henri; History of French literature (Book); History of the Ottoman Turks; from the beginning of their empire to the present time (Book); Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène; Verne, Jules; Life of Edward Norris Kirk, D.D. (Book); Alcott, Louisa May; Lamb, Mary; Bouton, N.; Payson; Poetry for children (Book); Political science; or, The state theoretically and practically considered (Book); Hoffmann, Professor; Quinnebasset girls (Book); Creasy, Edward Shepherd, Sir; May, Sophie; The campaign of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne, and the expedition of Lieut. (Book); The Khedive's Egypt; or, the old house of bondage under new masters (Book); The life and words of Christ (Book); The Rhine illustrated (Book); The secrets of conjuring and magic, or, how to become a wizard (Book); Woolsey, Theodore Dwight; King, Thomas Starr; Tom (Book); Stone, William Leete PDF IMAGES
626-629	September 1876 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A nation's birth and other national poems (Book); A popular history of the United States, from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states (Book); Round, Achsah (Book); Tocqueville, Alexis de; Being a Christian: what it means and how to begin (Book); Spurgeon, C.H. (Charles Haddon); Cornwall, C.M.; Commenting and commentaries (Book); Cripps, the carrier: a woodland tale (Book); Democracy in America (Book); Dolliver romance, and other pieces (Book); Fawcett, Edgar; Abbott, Edward; Ellen story (Book); Hopkins, Ellice; Fanshawe, and other pieces (Book); For summer afternoons (Book); Bowen, Francis; Free, yet forging their own chains (Book); Hepworth, George H. (George Hughes); Calvert, George Henry; MacDonald, George; Beard, George Miller; Lathrop, George Parsons; Hay-fever; or, Summer catarrh: its nature and treatment (Book); Hidden perils (Book); Scudder, Horace Elisha; Habberton, John; Alcott, Louisa May; Charlesworth, Maria Louisa; Hay, Mary Cecil; Dodge, Mary Mapes; Men and manners in America one hundred years ago (Book); Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Oliver of the mill (Book); Blackmore, R.D. (Richard Doddridge); Revolutionary times: sketches of our country, its people, and their ways, one hundred years ago (Book); Rose Turquand (Book); Selected papers from the Spectator (Book); Silver pitchers, and independence: a centennial love story (Book); May, Sophie; Starboard and port: the “Nettie” along shore (Book); Study of Hawthorne (Book); Coolidge, Susan; The Asbury twins (Book); The dwellers in Five-Sisters Court (Book); Theophilus and others (Book); Thomas Wingfold, curate (Book); Gladden, Washington; Carleton, Will; Bryant, William Cullen; Young folks' centennial rhymes (Book) PDF IMAGES
300-305	January 1871 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A child's dream of a star (Book); A floweret (Book); Wister, A.L. (Annis Lee); Samuels, Adelaide F. (Adelaide Florence); Almanac (Book); Lumley, Arthur; Bear and forbear; or, the young skipper of Lake Ucayga (Book); Beautifying country homes (Book); Black Peter; scissor pictures (Book); Dickens, Charles; Krauth, Charles P. (Charles Porterfield); Culprit Fay (Book); Drayton Hall (Book); Earth and sea (Book); Kellogg, Elijah; Chase, Eliza B. (Eliza Brown); Browning, Elizabeth Barrett; Wahle, Emil; Enchanting and enchanted (Book); Pouchet, F.-A. (Félix-Archimède); Herbert, George; MacDonald, George; Baker, George Melville; Doré, Gustave; Andersen, H.C. (Hans Christian); Zschokke, Heinrich; Beecher, Henry Ward; History of Louis XIV (Book); Household stories, collected by the brothers Grimm (Book); Abbott, Jacob; Grimm, Jacob; Weidenmann, Jacob; Lowell, James Russell; Bunyan, John; Duval, John C. (John Crittenden); Milton, John; Abbott, John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot); Holme, John Stanford; Drake, Joseph Rodman; Billings, Josh; Josh Billings' farmer's allminax (Book); Mathews, Julia A.; Juno (Book); Labour stands on golden feet (Book); Light at eveningtime (Book); Little folks astray (Book); Figuier, Louis; Biart, Lucien; Reid, Mayne; Goldschmidt, Meïr; Morning and evening exercises (Book); Mother Goose in her new dress (Book); My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c. (Book); Ode on the morning of Christ's nativity (Book); Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni); Konewka, Paul; Pilgrim's progress (Book); Popular fairy tales (Book); Puck's nightly pranks (Book); Ranald Bannerman' boyhood (Book); Parker, Rosa Abbott; Shakespeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice (Book); May, Sophie; Springdale stories (Book); Stories and tales (Book); Warner, Susan; The adventures of a young naturalist in Mexico (Book); The adventures of Big-foot Wallace (Book); The castaways: a story of adventure in the wilds of Borneo (Book); The Christmas books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh (Book); The complete poetical works of James Russell Lowell (Book); The culprit Fay (Book); The flying mail (Book); The hard scrabble of Elm Island (Book); The iron age of Germany (Book); The library of poetry and song: being choice selections from the best poets (Book); The Pinks and Blues; or, The orphan asylum (Book); The poetical works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Book); The poetical works of George Herbert (Book); The social stage (Book); The song of the sower (Book); The universe (Book); Nast, Thomas; Rolfe, W.J. (William James); What she could (Book); Bryant, William Cullen; Thackeray, William Makepeace; Adams, William T. (William Taylor) PDF IMAGES

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