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title: 'True as Steel: A Novel'
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authors:
- 'Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune'
date: 1872-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Fiction'
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
- 'Children and Youth'
scriptures:
- 'Ephesians 5'
- 'Proverbs 31'
- 'Psalms 127'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/terhune-1872-true-as-steel-a-novel
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# True as Steel: A Novel

Excerpt from Marion Harland's novel 'True as Steel': youthful friends Violet and Hadassah navigate school, family ties, social ambition and marriage in Southern society.

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