Curated Short Stories and More from the 1880s—1930s.

VOL.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY

Works by Bessie Chandler

Published April, 1886
Miss Susan Van Antwerp allows her life to be dictated by exactly one feature: her formidable, aristocratic nose. It is the reason she selects her millinery with such fuss, and perhaps the reason she disowned her beloved nephew for marrying a “snub-nosed nobody.” But when she purchases a particular brown bonnet, she unknowingly walks away with a desperate secret stitched into the crown. It seems a twenty-dollar bill and a serendipitous mistake are about to force a confrontation that pride alone cannot resolve.

Flappers & Fiction

A curated archive of short stories and writings from 1880s to the 1930s. We preserve and organize public-domain literature by theme and genre, offering readers a clear window into the ideas, lives, and imaginations of the past.

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