Marietta Holley 
Samantha in Europe [EPUB ebook] 

Marietta Holley (1836-1926) wrote humorous novels of the satirically insightful Samantha Allen and her foolish husband. Excerpt: "Twilight on the broad ocean! Smooth, wild waste of blue-gray waters stretchin‘ out as fur as the eye could reach on every side. In the east a silvery moon hangin‘ low and a shinin‘ path leadin‘ up to it. In the west Mars a-dazzlin‘ bright over a pale pink sky, with streaks of yeller and crimson a-layin‘ stretched acrost it, like bars put up by angel hands a-fencin‘ in their world from ourn."