"It's the last inartificial stretch of the shoreline, " said Thomas Congdon, who has summered on the island for 40 years and lived year-round for the past 10 . " It's the way Nantucket was before it became an expensive parody of itself ."
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Reviews at the time, though by no means full of praise, suggested her novels held the reader s attention and were entertaining . " The Duped Guardian, or, The Amant Malade " ( 1785 ) was described by the " Monthly Review " as a book where " the construction is inartificial ( constructed without art or skill ), and the catastrophe is particularly confused; but the work is neither tedious nor insipid; it may afford amusement to please an idle mind, and instruction to warn a thoughtless one.