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100 1 _aRoberts, Octavia,
_d1875-1972
245 1 0 _aMy Lady Valentine
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-11
508 _aSusan E., David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"My Lady Valentine" by Octavia Roberts is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on Caleb Whitman, a hard-headed magazine editor who scoffs at love, and Nancy Rose, a sheltered young woman in a sleepy lakeside village, whose anonymous verse and letters lure him into a real romance he never intended. Set against Deep Harbor’s old wharves, family pride, and village rituals, the story plays with reason versus feeling, mistaken identities, and the charms and constraints of small-town life. The opening of the novel follows Caleb as he grumbles over editing a Valentine issue and spars with his friend Radding about the folly of love, only to be intrigued by a poem signed “Henry B. Luffkin” and an earnest letter pleading for a sale. A wager over “Henry’s” identity, wristlets sent in thanks, and a teasing correspondence draw Caleb to Deep Harbor, where chance and curiosity lead him to the hidden summerhouse of the Lowell estate and to Nancy Rose, niece of the stern, man-averse Aunt Roxana. Their quiet, vivid conversations—about “sane” love, the Song of Songs, and what a true hero is—upend Caleb’s tidy theories, even as a ferry ride hints at Nancy’s secret worries, her dream of a “Great Happiness,” and a suspected entanglement with a dashing soldier. Meanwhile, Caleb covertly arranges through Radding to buy Nancy’s heirlooms to raise fifty dollars, observes village life (a box sociable, the old graveyard), endures Aunt Roxana’s patriotic lectures, and finally spots the awaited letter at the post office—setting the stage for the courtship to deepen. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: The A.M. Davis Co., 1916
653 _aManners and customs -- Fiction
653 _aNew York (State) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- New York (State) -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/myladyvalentine00robeiala/myladyvalentine00robeiala/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78169
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