Opening a Chestnut Burr: A Jaded Man in a Country House
Edward Payson Roe
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A New York man of fashion, bored and ill, goes to his family's old place in the Hudson Highlands, now owned by his father's friend Walton, and finds there a daughter of the house who manages everyone and does not need rescuing. Roe was a Presbyterian minister and a Civil War chaplain who turned novelist after the Chicago fire and outsold every American of his decade; the burr of the title is what has to be opened, and it is not hers. Sixty paintings of the Hudson Highlands and the Housatonic Valley, among them landscapes by Jasper Francis Cropsey and George Inness, follow the novel's country-house world from 1845 to 1908.
A New York man of fashion, bored and ill, goes to his family's old place in the Hudson Highlands, now owned by his father's friend Walton, and finds there a daughter of the house who manages everyone and does not need rescuing. Roe was a Presbyterian minister and a Civil War chaplain who turned n...
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Edward Payson Roe (1838–1888) was an American novelist and Presbyterian minister. After serving as a chaplain in the Civil War, he was pastor of a church in Highland Falls, New York, and later devoted himself to writing and horticulture in Cornwall-on-Hudson. His novels include Barriers Burned Away, Opening a Chestnut Burr, and He Fell in Love with His Wife.
Edward Payson Roe (1838–1888) was an American novelist and Presbyterian minister. After serving as a chaplain in the Civil War, he was pastor of a church in Highland Falls, New York, and later devoted himself to writing and horticulture in Cornwall-on-Hudson. His novels include Barriers Burned Aw...
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