Fiction · 1912
Miss Billy’s Decision
Miss Billy’s Decision, first published in 1912, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Chapter I — Calderwell Does Some Talking
- Chapter II — Aunt Hannah Gets a Letter
- Chapter III — Billy and Bertram
- Chapter IV — For Mary Jane
- Chapter V — Marie Speaks Her Mind
- Chapter VI — At the Sign of the Pink
- Chapter VII — Old Friends and New
- Chapter VIII — M. J. Opens the Game
- Chapter IX — A Rug, a Picture, and a Girl Afraid
- Chapter X — A Job for Pete—And for Bertram
- Chapter XI — A Clock and Aunt Hannah
- Chapter XII — Sister Kate
- Chapter XIII — Cyril and a Wedding
- Chapter XIV — M. J. Makes Another Move
- Chapter XV — “Mr. Billy” and “Miss Mary Jane”
- Chapter XVI — A Girl and a Bit of Lowestoft
- Chapter XVII — Only a Love Song, but—
- Chapter XVIII — Sugarplums
- Chapter XIX — Alice Greggory
- Chapter XX — Arkwright Tells a Story
- Chapter XXI — A Matter of Straight Business
- Chapter XXII — Plans and Plottings
- Chapter XXIII — The Cause and Bertram
- Chapter XXIV — The Artist and His Art
- Chapter XXV — The Operetta
- Chapter XXVI — Arkwright Tells Another Story
- Chapter XXVII — The Thing That Was the Truth
- Chapter XXVIII — Billy Takes Her Turn
- Chapter XXIX — Kate Writes a Letter
- Chapter XXX — “I’ve Hindered Him”
- Chapter XXXI — Flight
- Chapter XXXII — Pete to the Rescue
- Chapter XXXIII — Bertram Takes the Reins
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About the author
1868–1920 · Victorian
Eleanor H. Porter (1868–1920) was an American novelist born in Littleton, New Hampshire, who trained as a singer before turning to writing fiction in her thirties. She is best remembered for Pollyanna (1913) and its sequel, whose relentlessly optimistic heroine gave the language the word "Pollyanna," and for the Miss Billy trilogy — Miss Billy (1911), Miss Billy's Decision (1912) and Miss Billy—Married (1914) — among the many novels she published in a prolific career cut short by her death at fifty-one.
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