Several people who enter casually into this novel
are leading characters
in other novels and stories of the “California
Series,” which covers the
social history of the state from the beginning of
the last century. They
are Gwynne, his mother, Lady Victoria Gwynne, Isabel
Otis and the Hofers
in ANCESTORS; the Randolphs in A DAUGHTER OF THE VINE;
Lee Tarlton, Lady
Barnstable, Lady Arrowmount, Coralie Geary, the Montgomerys
and Trennahans
in TRANSPLANTED and THE CALIFORNIANS; Rezánov in the
novel of that name,
and Chonita Iturbi y Moncada in THE DOOMSWOMAN, both
bound in the volume,
BEFORE THE GRINGO CAME; The Price Ruylers in THE AVALANCHE.
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