The Golden Dawn and Other Stories by May Wentworth

Juvenile Literature

Mrs. Newman

The Golden Dawn and Other Stories by May Wentworth

New York & San Francisco: A. Roman, 1870

Bret Hart reviewed this book and two other titles by California writers, Clara Dolliver’s The Candy Elephant and Other Stories for Children and “Aunt Florida’s” Phebe Travers in the Overland Review (Dec. 1869). He was not impressed by Wentworth’s work: “The Golden Dawn is a collection of stories with a Spanish nomenclature and a conventional New England sentiment, and a singular absence of the Spanish California local color. But there are faires, shrines, senoritas, and what not—and a great deal of that popular sentiment which passes for poetry, as well as that popular poetry which passes for sentiment ….”

Mrs. Newman

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