Queen Hildegarde (Summarized Edition)

Queen Hildegarde introduces a pampered city girl exiled to a plain New England farm, where she trades borrowed "royalty" for the nobility of work, loyalty, and neighborly duty. Richards's brisk, companionable prose blends comic episodes with keen observation of domestic labor, its gentle didacticism characteristic of late-nineteenth-century girls' fiction. Episodic chapters form a moral apprentice...