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Marjorie Daw (short story)

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John Flemming imagines Marjorie Daw in an illustration by John Cecil Clay, 1908

"Marjorie Daw" is a short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. One of Aldrich's first short stories, it was first published in 1869 (in book form in 1873, in Marjorie Daw and Other People).

The story, which is written entirely as a series of letters between two friends, concerns the invention of an imaginary young woman, Marjorie Daw, by one correspondent, intended as a harmless diversion. When the other correspondent becomes madly smitten with the imaginary Miss Daw, the first correspondent is forced to confess his ruse. The story ends thus: "For oh, dear Jack, there isn't any piazza, there isn't any hammock - there isn't any Marjorie Daw!"

Anthologies containing Majorie Daw

  • Marjorie Daw and Other People (1873)
  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories, Alexander Jessup (ed.), 1920, Boni & Liveright (at Google Books)
  • Family Book of Best Loved Short Stories, Leleand W. Lawrence (ed.), 1954, Hanover House
  • Great American Short Stories, Volume 2, audibook, 2008, BiblioLife, ISBN 978-0-554-31117-3
  • Short Story Classics: The Best from the Masters of the Genre [1]

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