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100 1 _aStephens, Ann S.
_q(Ann Sophia),
_d1810-1886
245 1 0 _aDoubly false
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-22
508 _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.)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPhiladelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1868
653 _aCousins -- Fiction
653 _aWomen -- Fiction
653 _aOcean travel -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008690275
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77750
999 _c118470
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