Hidden Hand
by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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About This Book
E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and her Capitola Black, or Black Cap - a cross-dressing, adventure-seeking girl-woman - was so well-loved that the book was serialized three times between 1859 and 1888 and was dramatized in forty different versions. When we first meet sharp and witty Capitola she is living among beggars and street urchins, and dressed as a boy because a boy can get work and be safe, whereas a girl is left to starve for want of "proper" employment. Unknown to her, Capitola has a very rich elderly guardian who finds h...
Chapters (65)
- HIDDEN HAND
- Author of THE CURSE OF CLIFTON
- NEW YORK HURST & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
- CONTENTS.
- THE HIDDEN HAND.
- CHAPTER I.
- THE NOCTURNAL VISIT.
- CHAPTER II.
- THE MASKS.
- CHAPTER III.
- THE QUEST.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CAPITOLA.
- CHAPTER V.
- THE DISCOVERY.
- CHAPTER VI.
- A SHORT, SAD STORY.
- CHAPTER VII.
- METAMORPHOSIS OF THE NEWSBOY.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- HERBERT GREYSON.
- CHAPTER IX.
- MARAH ROCKE.
- CHAPTER X.
- THE ROOM OF THE TRAP-DOOR.
- CHAPTER XI.
- A MYSTERY AND A STORM AT HURRICANE HALL.
- CHAPTER XII.
- MARAH'S DREAM.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- MARAH'S MEMORIES.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- THE WASTING HEART.
- CHAPTER XV.
- CAP'S COUNTRY CAPERS.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- CAP'S FEARFUL ADVENTURE.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- ANOTHER STORM AT HURRICANE HALL.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- THE RESIGNED SOUL.
- CHAPTER XX.
- THE OUTLAW'S RENDEZVOUS.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- GABRIEL LE NOIR.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- THE SMUGGLER AND CAPITOLA.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- THE BOY'S LOVE
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- CAPITOLA'S MOTHER.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- CAP'S TRICKS AND PERILS.
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- THE PERIL AND THE PLUCK OF CAP.
- CHAPTER XXVII.
- SEEKING HIS FORTUNE.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.
- A PANIC IN THE OUTLAW'S DEN.
- CHAPTER XXIX.
- THE VICTORY OVER DEATH.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- THE ORPHAN.
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