Mary Cary, Frequently Martha

By Bosher, Kate Langley

Book Id: WPLBN0002953387
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File Size: 110.99 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Mary Cary, Frequently Martha
Author:	Bosher, Kate Langley
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Teen/Young adult
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Mary Cary, Frequently Martha
Historic Publication Date:	1910
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Langley Bosher, B. K. (1910). Mary Cary, Frequently Martha. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orphans are sure enough children, and real much like the kind that have Mothers and Fathers; and that’s why I am going to write this story. So begins Mary’s diary, which she fills with her various doings and misadventures at the Asylum in Virginia and her sharp observations about life and human nature. She loathes Miss Bray, the head of the Asylum, who is not above telling bald-faced lies to the Board to further her own selfish ends. She loves Miss Katherine, the Asylum’s resident nurse, who has befriended Mary and serves as a gentle role model for the child. As for Martha, she is Mary’s other self who speaks out—and sometimes acts out—in spite of Mary’s better nature. When she unexpectedly discovers her family background, Mary writes a letter to her uncle that leads to some surprising results on the way to a happy ending. The Chicago Record-Herald of March 12, 1910 stated, Let’s be glad for books like Mary Cary. It isn’t so much what Mary Cary does, however, as what she is, bless her! that warms the cockles of the chilliest, most snugly corseted heart. (Summary by Jan MacGillivray)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Fiction, Teen/Young adult