The Eye of Dread

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The Eye of Dread contains three books: Book One: Betty; Watching The Bees; A Mother’s Struggle; Leave-Taking; The Passing Of Time; The End Of The War; A New Era Begins; Mary Ballard’s Discovery; The Banker’s Point Of View; The Nutting Party; Betty Ballard’s Awakening; Mysterious Findings; and Confession.

Book Two: Out Of The Desert; The Big Man’s Return; A Peculiar Position; Adopting A Family; Larry Kildene’s Story; The Mine–And The Departure; Alone On The Mountain; The Violin; The Beast On The Trail; A Discourse On Lying; Amalia’s Fête; Harry King Leaves The Mountain.

Book Three: The Little School-Teacher; The Swede’s Telegram; “A Resemblance Somewhere”; The Arrest; The Argument; Robert Kater’s Success; The Prisoner; Hester Craigmile Receives Her Letter; Jean Craigmile’s Return; The Trial; Nels Nelson’s Testimony; The Stranger’s Arrival; Betty Ballard’s Testimony; Reconciliation; and The Same Boy.

Emma Payne Erskine was the writer of a number of literary pieces through the beginning of the 20th century, including The Eye of Dread and The Mountain Girl. She typically had a brave leading woman features, and her style has been entailed as “genuinely American in feeling and treatment.” A prominent novelist of her genre in her lifetime, her love story, The Mountain Girl, was a top ranking tale in Ladies’ Home Journal quickly after it was circulated.

Emma was born in Racine, Wisconsin, her parents were Alfred Payne and Olive Child. Alfred was an artiste, which might have brought to her representation of her heroine’s dad in The Eye of Dread as an artiste. She is likely to have made her private life impinge the roles and happenings in her tales rather oftentimes, in reality. It is probable and plausible that her life as a child at the full force of the United States Civil War influence her composition of particular tales which set at that same circumstance.
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