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Dean delivers a thrill ride.

I read this in the New York: Robert Carter & Bros., 1854 edition, where the author is not named, except as "the author of Clara Stanley, etc." Carter, according to a biography available on line, was a devout follower of the evangelical church, Scottish variety, which well explains why this publisher located in New York would be putting out an improving novel set largely in England and Scotland, and very much devoted to bringing young female persons over to the evangelical Christian view of life. Florence Egerton, I regret to say, is both precocious and a prig, and I found her a bit much to bear in large quantities; her life, too, is stunningly uneventful - that, no doubt, is quite deliberate. Her trials are largely internal, though there's a quick brush near the end with poverty brought on by trade speculation. The story's not ill-written, but the narrowness of view being rammed home at every opportunity was depressing to me, and I wasn't sad to leave Florence in her own particular version of sunshine after following her through the not terribly shadowy shadows of her life.