02644cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000470011324500170016026400510017730000470022833600260027533700260030133800360032750000310036350801760039452014770057053400730204765300230212065300210214365300280216485600520219285600430224499900190228777750UtSlPG20260610134812.0mcr n260607r20261868utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aStephens, Ann S.q(Ann Sophia),d1810-188610aDoubly false 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-01-22  aRichard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  a"Doubly false" by Ann S. Stephens is a novel written in the mid-19th century. It blends a sea-disaster melodrama with a domestic-sensation plot about a vast Hudson River estate and a perilous struggle over a will. The story centers on Virginia Lander, her cousin Cora, and Virginia’s wealthy father Amos, as jealousy, courage, and deception test family bonds after tragedy at sea.

The opening of the book follows two strikingly similar cousins, Virginia and Cora Lander, crossing the Atlantic with Virginia’s father, Amos, when a fire erupts on their steamer. After Virginia’s voice wins admiring applause—and sparks Cora’s envy—panic sweeps the ship; Cora leaps to a boat and is saved, while Virginia refuses to leave her father, is swept overboard by the crowd, then heroically supports a drowning hunchbacked girl until a sailor rescues them both. The scene shifts to Amos’s magnificent Hudson River mansion, where we learn of his devotion to Virginia, his generosity to his late brother’s widow (Mrs. Noel Lander) and niece (Cora), and the widow’s simmering ambition. News of the catastrophe drives the widow to Mr. Lander’s study, where she secretly opens his safe, discovers a will, and—fearing what it means for her—enlists her hard, clever maid Eunice Hurd and Eunice’s brother Joshua in a scheme, even as the family lawyer, Eben Stone, arrives and the widow feigns ignorance about any will. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cPhiladelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1868  aCousins -- Fiction  aWomen -- Fiction  aOcean travel -- Fiction4 uhttps://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00869027540uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77750  c118470d118470