The stories I see in the Relief Society Magazine apparently are all LDS-written, sometimes for writing contests but otherwise very clearly LDS. The stories in the Improvement Era, Juvenile Instructor, and Children’s Friend, though, do sometimes appear to have come from “outside.”

Still, my rationale for posting them is that these stories are what our LDS ancestors read; they’re ones that LDS editors thought were appropriate or would be of interest to an LDS audience.

This particular story reminded me quite a bit of “Christy,” that book (series?) about a young girl who goes to teach school in an Appalachian mountain hollow in the early part of the 20th century.