1. Characters

2. References

3. External links

The Hidden Hand (or Capitola the Madcap) is a serial novel by E. D. E. N. Southworth first published in the New York Ledger in 1859, and was Emma

Southworth's most popular novel. It was serialized twice more, first in 1868-69 and then again 1883 (in slightly revised form), before first appearing in book form in 1888. The novel was also serialized in the London Guide to Literature, Science, Art, and General Information simultaneous to its first publication in the New York Ledger. The name of the novel was changed to The Masked Mother for the London edition.^[1][2]

The book reportedly sold nearly two million copies.^[5][4] A sequel was released called Capitola's Peril.

It was also adapted into a play numerous times, and performed in venues across the United States and in London.^[5][6][7]

Characters

Capitola Black is the protagonist of the novel and an orphan whose origins are unknown. At the start of the novel she is living on the streets of New York working as a newsboy. The wealthy Major Warfield adopts her and brings her to his home Hurricane Hall. By the conclusion of the novel Capitola marries Herbert Greyson.^[10]

Major Ira Warfield is a war veteran, bachelor and owner of the Virginia plantation Hurricane Hall. He goes to New York in search of Capitola after learning about her from Nancy Grewell, the mulatta woman who delivered her and her stillborn brother many years earlier. Warfield adopts Capitola and makes her "'the sole heiress of a fortune--in land, negroes, coal-mines, iron-foundries, railway shares and bank-stock, of a half a million dollars.'"^[8]

Colonel Le Noir, the antagonist of The Hidden Hand, plots to have his niece, Capitola, murdered by Black Donald to keep her from inheriting his fortune. We learn that Capitola was rescued from Le Noir as an infant.^[8]

Traverse Rocke is the student of Dr. Day and the intended husband of Clara Day. He is also the unacknowledged son of Major Warfield and his "cast-off" wife Marah Rocke. Traverse is part of the group of male characters who go off to fight in the Mexican–American War.^[1]

Clara Day is the daughter of Dr. Day who is orphaned by his untimely death and falls under the control of Colonel Le Noir. Clara is the love interest of Traverse Rocke and is rescued by Capitola. By the conclusion of the novel Clara marries Traverse.^[8]

Craven Le Noir is the son of Colonel Le Noir. His father tries to force Clara Day to marry Craven.

Black Donald is the notorious bandit hired by Colonel Le Noir to murder Capitola. He is frequently outsmarted by Capitola and assumes several identities over the course of the novel.^[8]

Wool is a "minstrel-like" slave who lives at Hurricane Hall and faithfully serves Major Warfield.^[1]

Nancy (Granny) Grewell is the mulatta midwife who shares her "last testament" with Major Warfield. She is also the woman who saves Capitola as an infant and takes her to New York at the request of Cap's mother.^[9]

References

External links

• The Hidden Hand, full text online from the University of Pennsylvania library
• [https://archive.org/details/capitolasperilas24337gut Capitola's Peril], at archive.org
• {{librivox book | title=The Hidden Hand | author=E.D.E.N. SOUTHWORTH}}
• Michele Ann Abate "Launching a Gender B(l)acklash: E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand and the Emergence of (Racialized) White Tomboyism" ^[10]
• Sari Edelstein's "Metamorphosis of the Newsboy" ^[11]

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