The Hidden Hand

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"This comic melodrama draws for its humor and our contemporary interest upon the heroine's cross-dressing and cross-gender identification." (Nineteenth-Century Literature) "The Hidden Hand was a runaway best-seller when it was published in 1859; for years afterward, daring parents named their daughters Capitola, venturous women. ... Fun to read and an excellent text for simultaneously demonstrating the existence of 19th-century literary stereotypes of women and showing how one writer reveled in exploding them." (Choice) "[Southworths] labyrinthine story of kidnap, missing heirs, villians called Black Donald, and Amazon heroinism still entertains. A blend of swashbuckler, Horatio Alger story, domestic sentimentalism, and thriller, her book offers fantasies of feminine invincibility. ... it must hhave titilated many a homebound matron." - Belles Lettres A startling yarn about cross-gender adventuring (American Lterature) This comic melodrama draws for its humor and our contemporary interest upon the heroine's cross-dressing and cross-gender identification. (Nineteenth-Century Literature) This comic melodrama draws for its humor and our contemporary interest upon the heroine's cross-dressing and cross-gender identification. (Nineteenth-Century Literature) The Hidden Hand was a runaway best-seller when it was published in 1859; for years afterward, daring parents named their daughters Capitola, venturous women. ... Fun to read and an excellent text for simultaneously demonstrating the existence of 19th-century literary stereotypes of women and showing how one writer reveled in exploding them. (Choice) The Hidden Hand was a runaway best-seller when it was published in 1859; for years afterward, daring parents named their daughters Capitola, venturous women. ... Fun to read and an excellent text for simultaneously demonstrating the existence of 19th-century literary stereotypes of women and showing how one writer reveled in exploding them. (Choice) [Southworths] labyrinthine story of kidnap, missing heirs, villians called Black Donald, and Amazon heroinism still entertains. A blend of swashbuckler, Horatio Alger story, domestic sentimentalism, and thriller, her book offers fantasies of feminine invincibility. ... it must hhave titilated many a homebound matron. (Belles Lettres) [Southworths] labyrinthine story of kidnap, missing heirs, villians called Black Donald, and Amazon heroinism still entertains. A blend of swashbuckler, Horatio Alger story, domestic sentimentalism, and thriller, her book offers fantasies of feminine invincibility. ... it must hhave titilated many a homebound matron. (Belles Lettres) A startling yarn about cross-gender adventuring. (American Literature) A startling yarn about cross-gender adventuring. (American Literature)