On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:11:09 GMT, David Wright wrote:

> >> Ramona - The Heart and Conscience of Early California,
> >> by Helen Hunt Jackson. Copyright 1884.
> >
>
> I do know the story and the novel, BillB.
> But, I also know other lover's leap-type stories, so it's hard
> to say anything definite about any of them.

The blurb made it sound interesting (that's its job, after all)
but now the novel has lost a bit of its appeal. I guess that over a
century ago there was some more novelty to that novel. Though I
never watched any of the episodes, I think that a couple of years
ago there was a tele-novela on one of the Spanish UHF stations here
also named Ramona. If it ever returns I'll have to give it a closer
look to see if it's based on the potboiler.