"Marjorie Daw" is a

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich Thomas Bailey Aldrich (; November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of ''The Atlantic, The Atlantic Monthly'', during which he published writers including Charles ...

. One of Aldrich's first short stories, it was first published in 1869 before its inclusion in the book collection ''Marjorie Daw and Other People'' in 1873. The story is written as a series of letters between two friends. When Jack breaks his leg, and can't get about in fine summer weather, Ed starts writing about a beautiful and kind young woman named Marjorie Daw. Jack becomes madly smitten, and determined to intervene. At last, Ed confesses what had been meant as a diversion: "For oh, dear Jack . . -- there isn't any Marjorie Daw!"

Anthologies containing ''Majorie Daw''

*''Marjorie Daw and Other People'' (1873) *''The Best American Humorous Short Stories'', Alexander Jessup (ed.), 1920, Boni & Liveright () *''Family Book of Best Loved Short Stories'', Leleand W. Lawrence (ed.), 1954, Hanover House *''Great American Short Stories, Volume 2'', audibook, 2008, BiblioLife, *''Short Story Classics: The Best from the Masters of the Genre''

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{{wikisource, Marjorie Daw
''Majorie Daw'' at Project Gutenburg''Majorie Daw, Goliath, and Other Stories'' by Thomas Baily Aldrich, at Google Books
American short stories 1869 short stories Daw, Marjorie Daw, Marjorie