Reproduction of the original: Evelina’s Garden by Mary E. Wilkins

Evelina's Garden is the half tragic, half romance tale of Evelina Adams. After a series of tragedies in her youth culminating in a devastating disappointment in love, she turns her attention to creating a garden, to which she is fully devoted. Years later when in her seventies, her younger cousin Evelina Leonard comes to live with her. Young Evelina is romantically involved with Thomas Merriam. But it seems that she too might have the same fate as her older cousin with the son of the very man that disappointed older Everlina...

Half tragedy, half romance, and a very hard tale to rate well. The writing is good and the narrator is excellent. Evelina Adams creates a garden and devotes her life to it after a crippling disappointment in love. Her young cousin Evelina Leonard, her namesake, comes to live with her when she is past seventy, and instantly it seems that young Evelina is fated to have the exact same type of disappointment, with the son of the man the elder Evelina had loved. Will her fate be the same?

Reproduction of the original: Evelina’s Garden by Mary E. Wilkins