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Story
Synopsis Dawn of the Morning
by Grace Livingston Hill: “Like
two others of Mrs. Lutz's successful stories, “Marcia Schuyler”
and “Phoebe Deane,” this novel is set in New York State about
1826—quaint old days of poke bonnets and full skirts. Fresh
from school, at the age of sixteen, dreading to return to the
unhappy home she has left, and ignorant of all it implies, Dawn
consents to marry a friend of her father's whom she has only met.
Just before the wedding it develops that this man already has a
wife and two children. His younger brother, Charles, who has seen
Dawn and fallen in love with her, offers to take the intended
bridegroom's place, and it is agreed that he do so. Fearing that
Dawn will not accept the substitution, her stepmother, who is
anxious to get rid of her, so arranges that Dawn does not know
that she had not been married to the right man until she reaches
her new home after the ceremony.”
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