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The Grinder Papers

1890 · 357 pages

Catalog Note: This 1890 issue of *The Select Series* features "The Grinder Papers," a forty-two-chapter serial by Mary Kyle Dallas chronicling the visit of Miss Charity Grinder, a provincial woman, to New York City. The installments detail her experiences navigating urban life through episodic comic adventures: shopping expeditions, social visits, romantic entanglements, household management mishaps, encounters at theaters and parties, and various schemes involving neighbors including Benjamin Cloot, Jonathan, and Colonel Katermount. The narrative encompasses themes of courtship, deception, illness, elopement, and small mysteries—including a burglary, a poisoning, and undisclosed family secrets. Dallas employs a first-person vernacular voice in Charity's rambling anecdotes, emphasizing her rural New York upbringing (from Perkinsburg and Peekskill) set against metropolitan unfamiliarity. The publication includes advertising for Van Houten's Cocoa and Beecham's Pills, alongside a notice for Denman Thompson's "The Old Homestead," a stage drama adapted for readers.

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