Introduction.
Welcome to Project Gutenberg’s edition of Madame Claire, a novel by Susan Ertz.
About the Author.
Susan Ertz published over twenty works in a career spanning six decades. She was born February 13, 1887 and died on April 11, 1985. Madame Claire was her first novel.
This Project Gutenberg version.
This production of the book is based on the first American edition of the novel, published in 1923, by D. Appleton and Company. The source is the scanned copy of the Library of Congress from the Internet Archives.
Detailed Notes.
One major issue in the transcription of this book is the rendering of words hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. For most cases, words were silently rejoined based on other uses of the word in this novel. Cases where there are few or no other uses of the word are detailed in the Hyphenated Words section of these Detailed Notes. I used Google’s Ngram viewer when the book had no template. There were a few cases where I’d love to check the author’s other novels for templates but her other works are not digitized. Any other issues in rejoining these words may also be found in the Hyphenated Words section.
Other issues that have come up in transcribing the book are listed in the Emendations and Issues section of these Detailed Notes.