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The novel centers on the determined efforts of three British families, the Moseleys, the Jarvises, and the Chattertons, to arrange suitable marriages for their sons and daughters. The early-nineteenth-century action is portrayed through dinners, social calls, visits to summer resorts, and various designs aimed at securing matrimonial alliances. The novel's title,
First publish date: 1800
Genre: Family & Domestic Fiction/Marriage & Divorce Fiction
Authors: James Fenimore Cooper
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