Libbey, Laura Jean: Daisy Brooks. V1. 3 Jan 2010
 

Laura Jean Libbey (March 22, 1862 - October 25, 1924), was an American writer.The highly popular author of fiction, her works were what became known as dime novels. Today they would be categorised as formulaic romance novels. In 1898, at the age of 36, she married a lawyer. They did not have children. On her passing in 1924, she was buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. In the 1920s some of her novels were filmed.

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A warm day in the southern part of West Virginia was fast drawing to a close; the heat during the day had been almost intolerable under the rays of the piercing sun, and the night was coming on in sullen sultriness. No breath of cooling air stirred the leafy branches of the trees; the stillness was broken only by the chirping of the crickets, and the fire-flies twinkled for a moment, and were then lost to sight in the long grasses.