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A Shocking Example, And Other Sketches
Frances Courtenay Baylor
Lippincott, 1889
Literary Criticism; American; General; Literary Criticism / American / General
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Is true in its essential facts. That is, two Mexican children were really captured some years since on the other side of the Rio Grande by the Indians, and carried off to the Llanos Esta cados. After four years spent in captivity they made their escape, and safely accomplished the almost impossible and truly incredible feat of walking three hundred miles and more through virgin wilds, with only such protection as Una had, and no friendly bull like Europa's to shorten so much as one weary mile of all that great distance, led no doubt by guardian angels Who knew enough of mundane geography to bring them first to the frontier of Texas, and then restore them to their.
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Claudia: A Novel, Volume 2; Claudia: A Novel; Frances Courtenay Baylor
Frances Courtenay Baylor, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
Osgood, McIlvaine, 1894
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Frances Courtenay Baylor Barnum was an American author of fiction.
Background
Frances Baylor was born on January 20, 1848, at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Her parents, James L. and Sophie (Baylor) Dawson, maintained only the shifting residence to be expected in the family of an army officer. They lived for a while in San Antonio and New Orleans. Toward the close of the Civil War, Mrs. Dawson, having resumed her maiden name both for herself and daughter, came to Virginia, where along with Frances, she took up residence with another daughter, Sophie, married to Gen. J. G. Walker. Virginia was home to them.
Education
Frances's education was conducted by her mother.
Career
Once Frances and the entire Walker household went for a long visit in England. Their association here with people of considerable literary importance probably emphasized the habitual bookishness of their surroundings. Frances responded to these surroundings faithfully. Returning to America, she began writing in earnest; first, she gave to the world an anonymous play, Petruchio Tamed, and later a series of newspaper articles published in papers from New Orleans to London, and signed with the name of one of her male relatives. In 1885 she published On Both Sides, a British-American novel, which had first appeared as two stories in Lippincott's Magazine. These stories, the author states in her preface, "are now bound together, as I earnestly trust that John Bull and his Cousin Jonathan may be in the future. " Other writings followed.
Of the novels, Behind the Blue Ridge (1887) confined itself to American characters, but all the others - Juan and Juanita (1888), Claudia Hyde (1894), Miss Nina Barrow (1897), The Ladder of Fortune (1899) and A Georgian Bungalow (1900) - derive much of their interest from the contrast of character between persons of different nationalities. The story interest of these books is slight, and the character delineation, while pleasant, is not searching enough to confer permanence. Only one of them, Juan and Juanita, a child's book, as were also Miss Nina Barrow and A Georgian Bungalow, retains its vitality. Dealing with the capture and escape of two Mexican children, it draws too deeply upon the standard devices of suspense to perish readily. It was republished in an elaborate edition in 1926.
A Shocking Example, a volume of stories collected from the Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere, was published in 1889. Her poems were not numerous, but some of them - especially the patriotic ones - were widely popular. In 1896, Miss Baylor was married to George Sherman Barnum of Savannah, Georgia. Left a widow after a short time, she took up a brief residence in Lexington, Virginia, before returning permanently to her old home in Winchester. There, with her mother and her sister and her sister's daughters, she lived placidly, occupied chiefly with projects for a new novel, "The Matrimonial Coolie" (never published), but diverting herself from time to time, after her custom, with music and with pleasant visitors. She died while reading in a public library.