This author's later novels include The Mortgage on the Hiproof House, and one in which Eva Collins has a secret benefactor who takes the name P.P. Smith but is really the title bootblack, Pactolus Prime.
This author's later novels include The Mortgage on the Hiproof House, and one in which Eva Collins has a secret benefactor who takes the name P.P. Smith but is really the title bootblack, Pactolus Prime. The pastor of the Church of the Golden Lilies stops a strike in his novel about a "Christian Socialist," Murvale Eastman, while his earliest novel Toinette was reworked as A Royal Gentleman. His best known novel features the hero Comfort Servosse, a man of French Canadian blood who comes to Warrington and meets Melville Gurney and Miss Lily, who get married in that book's sequel, Bricks Without Straw. But, this writer is also known as a judge in North Carolina who agreed to serve as counsel for Homer Plessy. FTP, name this author of A Fool's Errand, a carpetbagger who fought for black rights during Reconstruction.
This author's later novels include The Mortgage on the Hiproof House, and one in which Eva Collins has a secret benefactor who takes the name P.P. Smith but is really the title bootblack, Pactolus Prime.
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