Oldtown Folks (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- First Published: 1869
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth century
- Setting: Massachusetts
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, New England, American Revolution, Eighteenth century, Calvinism, Duels or dueling, Puritans or Puritanism, Realism, Eighth century
- Locales: Boston, MA, New England
Characters Discussed
Horace Holyoke, the narrator of this social chronicle of post-Revolutionary War New England. Born to poverty, he is ten when his schoolteacher father dies. Thanks to his abilities, his industry, and the benefaction of friends, he attends Harvard and at last becomes a successful lawyer.
Harry Percival, Horace’s closest friend. Harry’s mother, brought to America after an elopement and secret marriage, is deserted by her English officer husband and dies, leaving Harry and his sister. They are brought up with Horace, and the boys attend Harvard...
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