Many works popular around the time of the Book of Mormon’s publication were romances. In fact, Manuscript Story by Reverend Solomon Spaulding—a book some dissenters erroneously thought to be the original source of the Book of Mormon—devotes more than one-fourth of its pages to romance, courtship, and marriage. Furthermore, Jane Austen’s novels—icons of traditional romance—appeared in the same time period as the Book of Mormon. While courtship and marriage do show up in the Book of Mormon—an example being the abduction of the Lamanite maidens by the wicked priests of King Noah—the details are related matter-of-factly, and neither the patterns nor the treatment of the subjects remotely resembles nineteenth-century notions of romantic love. (See Echoes, 311–312).