The Original "Gossips of Rivertown"

This blog takes its name, The Gossips of Rivertown, from an 1848 novel written by Alice B. Neal, who grew up in Hudson. The novel can be read in its entirety online at Google Books, but when the blog called The Gossips of Rivertown got started in 2010, I serialized excerpts from the novel over the course of more than a year. After telling someone recently how the 19th-century Gossips could be read on the 21st-century Gossips, I realized how daunting a task it would be to try to find all the excerpts and read them in order. For that reason, I am providing the links, in order, to all of the excerpts. The titles of the excerpts were introduced by me.  

Excerpt 1:  "Was There Ever Such Imprudence?" 
Excerpt 2:  "An Artful Creature as Ever Lived"
Excerpt 3:  "Mr. Jorden Was Going to Be Married"
Excerpt 4:  "The Love of Gossip Prevailed" 
Excerpt 5:  Miss Harden and Miss Mitchell Pay a Visit  
Excerpt 6:  Whose Miniature Was It?
Excerpt 7:  "One of that Amiable Sisterhood"
Excerpt 8:  Doing Their Duty as Friends
Excerpt 9:  A Perfect Day in Rivertown
Excerpt 10:  Summer in Hudson
Excerpt 11:  "The Hypocrisy of Some People!"
Excerpt 12:  Catching up with the Original Gossips
Excerpt 13:  A Visit from Mrs. Townsend
Excerpt 14:  A Visit from Mrs. Townsend (continued)
Excerpt 15:  "A Woman So Imprudent"
Excerpt 16:  "How Have I Transgressed the Laws of Propriety?"
Excerpt 17:  "A Tall, Sad-looking Man"
Excerpt 18:  "I've Made Up My Mind About His Case"
Excerpt 19:  "Someone Must Have Corrupted the Truth"
Excerpt 20:  "'Tis but a Trial Sent for Our Good"
Excerpt 21:  "Many a Sorrowful Struggle"
Excerpt 22:  Mr. Townsend Hears His Accusation
Excerpt 23:  "This Sadly Eloquent Appeal"
Excerpt 24:  "Into the Silent Land"
Excerpt 25:  "Benevolence Became a Mania in Rivertown"
Excerpt 26:  The Orphan Asylum Fair
Excerpt 27:  "Unexpected Good Fortune"
Excerpt 28:  Another Gossips Milestone
Excerpt 29:  Spring in Rivertown
Excerpt 30:  "Partings Seem the Order of the Day"

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