Evelinas Garden

Reproduction of the original: Evelina’s Garden by Mary E. Wilkins

Evelina's Garden is the half tragic, half romance tale of Evelina Adams. After a series of tragedies in her youth culminating in a devastating disappointment in love, she turns her attention to creating a garden, to which she is fully devoted. Years later when in her seventies, her younger cousin Evelina Leonard comes to live with her. Young Evelina is romantically involved with Thomas Merriam. But it seems that she too might have the same fate as her older cousin with the son of the very man that disappointed older Everlina...

Half tragedy, half romance, and a very hard tale to rate well. The writing is good and the narrator is excellent. Evelina Adams creates a garden and devotes her life to it after a crippling disappointment in love. Her young cousin Evelina Leonard, her namesake, comes to live with her when she is past seventy, and instantly it seems that young Evelina is fated to have the exact same type of disappointment, with the son of the man the elder Evelina had loved. Will her fate be the same?

Reproduction of the original: Evelina’s Garden by Mary E. Wilkins

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Evelina's Garden

Excerpt from Evelina's Garden On the south a high arbor-vitae hedge separated Evelina's garden from the road. The hedge was so high that when the school-children lagged by, and the secrets behind it fired them with more curiosity than those between their battered book covers, the tallest of them by stretching up on tiptoe could not peer over. And so they were driven to childish engineering feats, and would set to work and pick away sprigs of the arbor-vitae with their little fingers, and make peep-holes - but small ones, that Evelina might not discern them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."