Samantha in Europe

Marietta Holley (1836-1926) wrote humorous novels of the satirically insightful Samantha Allen and her foolish husband. Excerpt: 'Twilight on the broad ocean! Smooth, wild waste of blue-gray waters stretchin’ out as fur as the eye could reach on every side. In the east a silvery moon hangin’ low and a shinin’ path leadin’ up to it. In the west Mars a-dazzlin’ bright over a pale pink sky, with stre...