---
title: 'The Curse and the Cup'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Julia McNair Wright'
date: 1879-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Temperance'
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Fiction'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 23'
- 'Ephesians 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/wright-1879-the-curse-and-the-cup
---

# The Curse and the Cup

Temperance novella about Patty Grey, an 18-year-old who cares for her step-siblings while their mother sinks into alcoholism. Domestic ruin and the plea for rescue and reform.

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