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		Frame, Elizabeth, 1820-1913.

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		Spouses -- Death -- Fiction.
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		Fatherless families -- Fiction.
		Christian life -- Fiction.
		Authors, Canadian -- Nova Scotia.
		Canadian fiction -- 19th century.

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The twilight of faith / by Elizabeth Frame.

by Frame, Elizabeth, 1820-1913.

H.D. Brown, 1873.

Spouses -- Death -- Fiction.

Grief -- Fiction.

Widows -- Fiction.

Motherhood -- Fiction.

Single-parent families -- Fiction.

Fatherless families -- Fiction.

Christian life -- Fiction.

Authors, Canadian -- Nova Scotia.

Canadian fiction -- 19th century.

View PDF file of microfilmed book from archive.org website.

viii, 128 p. ; 19 cm.

Originally published: Boston : H.D. Brown, 1871.

"How we see through a glass darkly."--Title page.

Nova Scotia author Elizabeth Murdoch Frame was born in 1820 in Shubenacadie. She taught in the public schools of Nova Scotia for 30 years. In her short novel The twilight of faith (first published in 1871), she adopted the common convention of using an American setting. A didactic work of fiction dedicated to Frame's father, it recounts the spiritual journey of Mary Gray, a young mother of two who falls into despair following the death of her husband, and ends as she regains her happiness through devotion to her children and charity. An excerpt from the first chapter: "This day twelve months ago, my dear husband was accidentally drowned. 'Sad accident,' said the telegram. 'Melancholy accident,' echoed the daily papers. That was all. While poor, crushed I, forgetting everything but that cruel telegram, have lived through a whole year, waiting, wishing, hoping, only to die. I, Mary Grey, once a happy, romping, country girl, adopted by a wealthy lady, who carried me to Boston, taught me to call her aunt, and spared no expense on my education. At sixteen I was engaged to her nephew, Edward Ross. My dear aunt's only objection to the match was the difference in age - his being double mine; but her tailing health made her overlook this, and we were married. Aunty died suddenly in the same year. I am sure she went to heaven, she was so good to me. What a fine, noble looking man Ross was. All through our ten years of married life, how good, how kind, how considerate. Then death came, oh! so suddenly. It was cruel, cruel death. The last year is one ever present agony. I have stayed in this house - home no more - one long, long year. I, only the ghost of my former self." A detailed online biography of Elizabeth Frame, written by Janet Guildford, is available from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography biographi.ca website

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