[Gutenberg 17913] • Clemence / The Schoolmistress of Waveland

Retta B. Babcock was the author of: Graham Lodge; or, Laura Cliffordas Life Romance (1868) and Clemence: The Schoolmistress of Waveland (1870). aIn the present work, facts were chosen for a basis, as calculated to interest, where the wildest dream of the novelist would pall upon the satiated mind. It has been remarked, in a homely phrase by another, that awhat comes from the heart, reaches the heart, a and if the present fruits of long and unremitting mental labor, sustained often amid such trial and discouragements, as seldom fall to the lot of mortal to bear, should find sympathy and appreciation with the mass of readers, the aim of the writer will have been fully accomplished. a