The Rose of the Wilderness: Or, Washington’s First Love

Year of Publication
1901
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
456 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Walter Scott Browne
Publisher
A.C. Graw
City
Camden, NJ
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Abstract

Follows an Irish family struggling on the frontier at the Forks of the Ohio. In a subplot George Washington, who is passing through on his historic mission of 1753, falls in love with a Pittsburgh maiden named Maria Frazier. When she refuses him, Washington rededicates himself to passion for his country.

Notes

This novel is plagiarized from, but an abbreviated version of, Solomon Secondsight’s The Wilderness (1823).

Author Biography

Walter Scott Browne (1850-1913), born in Manor, Westmoreland County, was a teacher and principal in Western Pennsylvania before moving to Vineland, New Jersey for a position with the Welch Grape Juice Company. He later became postmaster of Vineland.

Time

1750s

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