Holley's work appealed to all classes of society. Her readers are scattered over the entire world and include men and women of every station and grade. Her books are widely read in Europe.
She received the rudiments of an English education at a neighboring school, and later, with the exception of teachers in music and French, she pursued her studies at home. When she was a young girl she was given to poetry, and wrote a great deal. She thought she should like to become a great painter; then she decided to be a poet, but finally abandoned both intentions.
Holley commenced her career as a writer when in her teens, though she published nothing until At the age of seventeen, she converted to the Baptist faith and joined the Adams Village Baptist Church.
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Her father died when she was 25, and Holley took charge of the farm and care of her sick mother and sister. Her first appearance in print was in a newspaper published in the Adams Journal. Her first pen-name was "Jemyma. Peterson, for whom she wrote later.
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The editors of the Christian Union published what they called "a sweet little poem " from her pen. She wrote also for the Independent and several other weekly and monthly journals. Her articles at that time were mostly poems, and were widely copied in the United States and in Europe. It was in a dialect sketch written for Peterson's Magazine that she first adopted the pen-name "Josiah Allen's Wife".
That pen name and "Jemyma" were a protest against the too musical pen-names of literary aspirants.
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Against the protest of his company, he brought out Holley's work. He urged her to write a book for him, which she did, and it was an immediate success, and was republished at once in England and Canada. Her next book, Samantha at the Centennial , appeared in , and at once pleased the popular taste.
The Wayward Pardner appeared in Red cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Second Life Books Inc Published: Samantha Among The Brethren.. Marietta Holley Nabu Press, Same format as 1st issue. Scarce in this condition. Original red pictorial cloth, elaborately stamped in black, spine lettering stamped in gilt.
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Holley was a popular satirist on a level with Mark Twain, although her books are not as collectable. This copy is the brightest and cleanest of any of the "Samantha" series we have handled or seen. This title spoofs Methodism in particular. Corners bumped and rubbed through at the tips. Half inch of mouse nibbling to the leading edge of the back board can't blame the mouse for having taste in satire.
Touch of rubbing at the spine ends. Touch of dampstain to the back pastedown and endpaper in the gutter..
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