Julie Summary
Catherine Marshall

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Julie Summary

The social conditions which are presented in Julie have been taken from the author's own life as a teenager in Keyser, West Virginia, where her father served as a Presbyterian minister and from the events surrounding the tragic Johnstown flood of 1889. In the foreword to the first edition of Julie, Leonard LeSourd writes that Catherine Marshall prepared for the writing of the novel by studying the techniques of running...

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