Samantha is the central character of this humorous and satirical novel. This long-lost fictional masterpiece by American classical author Marietta Holley, tells the outlandish stories of Samantha Allen and her husband Josiah as they venture around the Old World. Marietta Holley was an American humorist who used satire to comment on U.S. society and politics. Holley's writing was frequently compared to that of Mark Twain and Edgar Nye.
