Keeping Up Appearances, a Tale for the Rich and Poor — T.S. Arthur / Timothy Shay Arthur

T. S. Arthur's Keeping up Appearances a Tale for the Rich and Poor is a romantic story of choices between relationships based on convenience, wealth and love. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and useful tone. His works are wholesome, inculcate morality and purify the feelings - by tastefully illustrating the beauties of virtue, and the iniquities of vice. Timothy Shay Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book. Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable life in America. Arthur was one of the most popular and widely read author of his time.