her previous works had disappointed her, and she hoped that by bringing out
Oldtown Folks
directly in book form it would do better. The plates for the original Fields, Osgood edition were used for many subsequent reprintings by Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
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The standards for American English continue to fluctuate and in some ways were conspicuously different in earlier periods from what they are now. In nineteenth-century writings, for example, a word might be spelled in more than one way, even in the same work, and such variations might be carried into print. Commas were sometimes used expressively to suggest the movements of voice, and capitals were sometimes meant to give significances to a word beyond those it might have in its uncapitalized form. Since modernization would remove these effects, this volume has preserved the spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and wording of the first editions, which, of the available texts, appear most faithful to Stowe's intentions.
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The present edition is concerned only with representing the texts of these editions; it does not attempt to reproduce features of the typographic designsuch as the display capitalization of chapter openings. Footnotes within the text are by Stowe. Open contractions are retained as they appeared in the original texts. However some changes have been made. A Table of Contents has been added to
The Minister's Wooing
corresponding to the chapter titles in the original edition. Typographical errors have also been corrected. The following is a list of those errors, cited by page and line numbers: 37.37, parlor?; 65.15, swet; 81.1, [title omitted]; 137.26, peacably; 144.2, chewing; 252.13, knees; 257.3, Ohpelia's; 349.40, down.; 381.9, shope; 395.5, in in; 409.30, grad; 537.8, candes; 542.13, lowers; 564.3940, Armenian; 572.14, Marvyn he; 600.13, gods and; 611.39, Chatechism; 633.3, "Candace, said; 683.36, as not.; 684.10, instrument, it; 701.30, he; 746.24, affection"; 749.5, money,; 758.9, is'n't; 759.13, love?; 849.39, know.; 909.36, wrong"; 950.3536, Rosseter; 955.24,
We;
1012.37, 'There 's; 1068.17, "There it!"; 1083.20, it?'; 1161.17, lips,'; 1194.23, lady; 1258.19, Héloise,'; 1348.35, You; 1408.8, and,'; 1433.6, livin.'; 1440.3, down.; 1447.16, 'O Aunty; 1448.34, aunty. Errors corrected second printing, June 1982: 7.4, see;
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