The Story of Marco
Eleanor Hodgman Porter
Eleanor Porter’s third novel, The Story of Marco, was published in 1911. In this book she dramatizes how boys were employed as “breaker boys” and “newsies.” This is the first of Eleanor’s novels in which music has a role. Many will follow. (See Glad Refrains.)
The story begins in the mining town of Gaylordville, Pennsylvania. To the relief of townsfolk, a band of gypsies has decamped. They left behind a sick woman and a nine year-old boy, Marco Ferdinando Bonelli.
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