Published in 1878, Roxy was one of Eggleston’s best selling novels. Its heroine, Roxy Adams, is a religious woman whose faith is sorely tested when her husband embarks on an affair that results in an illegitimate child. It is an example of pure American fiction; in a contemporary review, the New York Post wrote, “‘Roxy’ is the best product of Dr. Eggleston’s activity in the field of fiction.”
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Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) was an American novelist and historian. A pioneering regionalist and realist who is most closely identified with Indiana, his best-known novels include
The Hoosier School-Master (1871),
The End of the World (1872), and
The Circuit Rider (1874). His most notable histories are
Beginners of a Nation (1896) and
Transit of Civilization from England to America (1900).
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