Books with title The Test of Love

“The Test of Love” resumes the tale of the young Earl of Hawkewood and his sweetheart, Seraph Elfinstar, having been abruptly interrupted at the conclusion of “A Tortured Heart,” thus concluding “The Trail of the Serpent” trilogy.Written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819–1899) and first copyright in 1879 by Robert Bonner. Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the A. L. Burt printed edition. 35 chapters. 306 pages. 122,000 words.Chapters:I. - A Girl’s Tragedy.II. - An Old Man’s Fate.III. - “As a Spirit.”IV. - An Embarrassing Encounter.V. - At the Gold Diggings.VI. - The Lovers.VII. - A Lover’s Faith.VIII. - Another Mad Meeting.IX. - What Ham Gow Saw One Night.X. - Reviving Hope.XI. - On the Trail.XII. - Back to Hawkewood.XIII. - At Hawke Hall.XIV. - The Haunted Well.XV. - The Specter.XVI. - The Haunted Well at Midnight.XVII. - Within the Manor House.XVIII. - “Weird Women.”XIX. - The Detective and the Witness.XX. - Flight and Pursuit.XXI. - Hidden.XXII. - Run to Cover.XXIII. - In the Confessional.XXIV. - The Fiat.XXV. - The Fate.XXVI. - Vindication.XXVII. - Success!XXVIII. - Ham Gow’s Great Grievance.XXIX. - The Birthday.XXX. - Amazement.XXXI. - A Dark Defense.XXXII. - Discharged.XXXIII. - The Triumphal Entry.XXXIV. - Love’s Long Suspense.XXXV. - The Surprise.

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899) was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century. She was probably the most widely read author of that era. Southworth's first story, The Irish Refugee, was published in the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. Some of her earliest works appeared in The National Era, the newspaper that printed Uncle Tom's Cabin. The bulk of her work appeared as a serial in Robert Bonner's The New York Ledger, which was widely read in the 1850s and 1860s. Her first novel, Retribution, a serial for the National Era, published in book form in 1846, was so well received that she gave up teaching and became a regular contributor to various periodicals, especially the New York Ledger. Her best known work was The Hidden Hand. It first appeared in serial form in the New York Ledger in 1859, and was serialized twice more (1868-69, 1883) before first appearing in book form in 1888. Most of her novels deal with the Southern United States during the post-American Civil War era.