Alone

Marion Harland's novels are mostly antebellum plantation romances, her stories featured heroines who were exemplary domestic women, never independent but always capable.Sometimes referred to as "sentimental fiction" or "woman's fiction," "domestic fiction" refers to a type of novel popular with women readers during the middle of the nineteenth century.Forgotten today by all but a handful of women's domestic and literary historians, Marion Harland (1830-1922) was one of the best known American wo