Anna St. Ives : A Novel

By Holcroft, Thomas

Excerpt
Here are we, my dear girl, in the very height of preparation. We begin our journey southward at five tomorrow morning. We shall make a short stay in London, and then proceed to Paris. Expectation is on tiptoe: my busy fancy has pictured to itself Calais, Montreuil, Abbeville, in short every place which the book of post roads enumerates, and some of which the divine Sterne has rendered so famous. I expect to find nothing but mirth, vivacity, fancy, and multitudes of people. I have read so much of the populousness of France, the gaiety of its inhabitants, the magnificence of its buildings, its fine climate, fertility, numerous cities, superb roads, rich plains, and teeming vineyards, that I already imagine myself journeying through an enchanted land.

Table of Contents
· VOLUME I. · LETTER I. ANNA WENBOURNE ST. IVES TO LOUISA CLIFTON. · LETTER II. LOUISA CLIFTON TO ANNA WENBOURNE ST. IVES. · LETTER III. FRANK HENLEY TO OLIVER TRENCHARD. · LETTER IV. ANNA WENBOURNE ST. IVES TO LOUISA CLIFTON. · LETTER V. FRANK HENLEY TO OLIVER TRENCHARD. · LETTER VI. LOUISA CLIFTON TO ANNA WENBOURNE ST. IVES. · LETTER VII. ABIMELECH HENLEY TO SIR ARTHUR ST. IVES, BARONET. · LETTER VIII. ANNA WENBOURNE ST. IVES TO LOUISA CLIFTON. · LETTER IX. SIR ARTHUR ST. IVES TO ABIMELECH HENLEY. · LETTER X. LOUISA CLIFTON TO ANNA WENBOURNE ST. IVES. · LETTER XI. FRANK HENLEY TO OLIVER TRENCHARD. · LETTER XII. ANNA WENBOURNE ST. IVES TO LOUISA CLIFTON. · LETTER XIII. FRANK HENLEY TO OLIVER TRENCHARD. · LETTER XIV. ANNA WENBOURNE ST. IVES TO LOUISA CLIFTON. · LETTER XV. FRANK HENLEY TO ABIMELECH HENLEY. · LETTER XVI. ABIMELECH HENLEY TO FRANK HENLEY. · LETTER XVII. THE HONOURABLE MRS. CLIFTON TO HER SON, COKE CLIFTON. · LETTER XVIII. LOUISA CLIFTON TO HER BROTHER, COKE CLIFTON.