Sadlier, Anna Theresa: Cousin Wilhelmina. v1. 14 Aug 2016
 

Anna Theresa SADLIER: Born : 1854: Died : 1932: Sadlier was an American writer who primarily wrote religious and juvenile literature. Her work is recognized for its unique style and teaching of moral values. Belonging to a family that had great literary background, she sparkled for her own talents.
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Strolling along through a once aristocratic quarter of New York which was no longer a residential district, but had been converted into a thoroughfare, Mr. Travers Preston stood regarding with interest a house, square and massive in its character and of the inevitable brown stone. It had no pretence to architectural elegance, it was quite guiltless of ornamentation, yet it bore, in its austere plainness, the sign manual of solid wealth and of gentility.