A classic novel concerning the romantic adventures of a milkmaid.

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid fails to conform to one of the most common expectations of a short story, namely that it is of such a length that it may be read at a single sitting. In its initial American publication, in Harper's, it is obviously a short novel or novella, running in seven instalments from June 23rd to August 4th. Although its full text was published under a single cover in England, in the The Graphic Summer Number, it was advertised in the regular edition of that weekly on Saturday, June 23rd, as "A COMPLETE NOVEL Running through the Number"