Marcia Schuyler
Marcia Schuyler
By: Grace Livingston Hill
This was the novel that made Grace Livingston Hill one of the most popular romance writers of her time. Set in the time in the early nineteenth century when the first steam locomotive was introduced in New York State, it is the story of two sisters, one the willful older sister Kate Schuyler, who abandons her betrothed David Spafford on their wedding day to elope with another man, and the younger sister Marcia, who agrees to take her sister’s place as David’s bride. Can Marcia hope that David will come to love her, or would he always regret losing his first love?
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Grace Livingston Hill
Grace Livingston Hill (1865-1947) published her first book in 1877, but it was not until she began writing what are known today as “Christian romances” that she achieved a wide following and success as a writer. From 1908 onward she wrote one to three novels a year for 40 years and is still read today for her inspirational stories of the power of love and faith is shaping people’s lives.
