Children of Liberty
Paullina Simons
Copyright
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First published in Great Britain by Harper 2012
Copyright © Paullina Simons 2012
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Source ISBN: 9780007241569
Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780007484034
Version: 2015-03-31
To my good friend Nick,
without whom this book, and many things,
might never have been
The world was all before them, where to choose
John Milton
Each of us Inevitable;
Each of us Limitless—
Walt Whitman
Contents
Part One: The Barber’s Daughter
Chapter One: Daughter of the Revolution
Chapter Four: Great Expectations
Chapter Six: A Sunday in a Small Town
Chapter Seven: Immigrants, Debutantes, Students
Chapter Eight: The Rewards of Mission Work
Chapter Nine: The Natives and the Pilgrims
Chapter Ten: In the Boston Winter
Chapter Thirteen: Minstrel Songs
Chapter Fourteen: The High Priestess of Anarchy
Chapter Fifteen: On their Knees by the Sea
Chapter Sixteen: Violet Catastrophe
Chapter Seventeen: The Marble Faun
Chapter Eighteen: Earth’s Holocaust
Part One
THE BARBER’S DAUGHTER
Love—what is love? A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair
Robert Louis Stevenson
Chapter One
DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION
THERE had been a fire at Ellis Island the year before Gina came to America with her mother and brother in 1899, and so instead of arriving at the Port of New York, they had set sail into the Port of Boston.
Salvo