Marjorie Daw (short story)
"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).
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John Flemming imagines Marjorie Daw in an illustration by John Cecil Clay, 1908
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
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