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Book - Lucille
Book - Lucile
Book - Lucille
Book - Lucille

Book - Lucile

Object number1984.014.02
Date1902
OriginWalnut Ridge, Arkansas
MediumPaper, ink
Dimensions6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.2 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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    DescriptionLucille by Owen Meredith. A narrative poem by Robert, Lord Lytton, published (1860) under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith. The heroine, Lucile, is beloved by two bitter rivals, the English Lord Alfred Hargrave [i.e., Vargrave] and the French Duke of Luvois. She loves Alfred, but misunderstanding keeps them apart. Long years after, Alfred's son and the Duke's niece fall in love, are separated by the old feud but finally reunited through the efforts of Lucile, who has become a nursing nun, under the name of Soeur Seraphine. The book went through more than ninety editions in America. The Reader's Encyclopedia. New York: Crowell, c 1948. Written in pencil inside the book: "Merry Xmas Effie."

    The Westphal family immigrated from Germany in the 1870s and settled in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. They are one of three of the original settler families in the area.

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