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Helen Lester

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In Isabella Macdonald Alden
Her first novel, Helen Lester, appeared in 1866 after a friend submitted it without her knowledge to a competition for a book explaining the scheme of Christian salvation to children. In that same year she married the Reverend Gustavus R. Alden, with whom she traveled to a succession…
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