L. F. A. MAULSBY, Tufts College, Mass., calls attention to the lack of notice taken of “The Head of a Hundred,” by Maud Wilder Goodwin, published in 1897. She writes: “The scene of the story is laid in early Virginia. Its heroine comes to these shores in the first shipload of wives, driven to this course to escape a titled marriage with a man she hates, whom her father has chosen for her. She comes, not under the name of her waitingwoman, as does the heroine in Miss Johnston’s ‘To Have and to Hold,’ but accompanying her. The course of true love runs far from smooth for the brave hero, and the heroine continues to misunderstand well-intentioned deeds and harmless situations after the usual manner of heroines. Many of the same historical characters figure in this book, as in Miss Johnston’s, include John P[o]ry, John Rolfe, and George Thorp. The climax of the story, which acquaints the interesting pair with their true character as lovers, is the same in both books—the bloody Indian uprising of the period, in which both heroes distinguish themselves. ‘The Head of a Hundred’ has much less slaughter and bloodshed, is less complicated in plot, and is told in fewer pages, but it seems at least to one reader that its similarity to ‘To Have and To Hold’ is worth noting.”
“A Book Very Like ‘To Have and to Hold'” by L. F. A. Maulsby (June 9, 1900)
In this letter to the New York Times, published on June 9, 1900, L. F. A. Maulsby suggests an unseemly similarity between the plots of Mary Johnston‘s newly published novel To Have and to Hold and The Head of a Hundred (1897) by Maud Wilder Goodwin.
“Miss Johnston’s ‘To Have and to Hold’” (February 10, 1900) Chapter 33: “In Which My Friend Becomes My Foe”; an excerpt from To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston (1900) “Mary Johnston in Her Home” by Annie Kendrick Walker (March 24, 1900) Review of To Have and to Hold (April 1900) “Miss Johnston’s Virginia” by Thomas Dixon Jr. (November 1900)
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- Maulsby, L. F. A.. “A Book Very Like ‘To Have and to Hold'” by L. F. A. Maulsby (June 9, 1900). (2020, December 07). In Encyclopedia Virginia. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/a-book-very-like-to-have-and-to-hold-by-l-f-a-maulsby-june-9-1900.
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