| Author |
Fawcett, Edgar, 1847-1904 |
| Title |
The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel
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| Note |
Reading ease score: 74.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
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| Credits |
E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org)
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| Summary |
"The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel" by Edgar Fawcett is a fiction narrative likely written in the late 19th century. The story's central focus revolves around Pauline Van Corlear, a young woman navigating the complexities of society after marrying a significantly older gentleman, Mr. Hamilton Varick. As she transitions from girlhood to widowhood, the narrative seemingly explores themes of independence, societal expectations, and personal transformation. The opening of the novel sets the stage in New York, describing the shifting character of Bond Street, once a bastion of old-world gentility now beset by commercialism. Mr. Varick, a wealthy man returned from Paris, marries eighteen-year-old Pauline, who feels the weight of societal pressure to secure her future through marriage. In the initial chapters, we see Pauline’s internal conflict as she reconciles her ambitions with the constraints imposed by her social world, setting up a storyline rich in both character development and commentary on the era's societal norms. Her early interactions, especially with her cousin Courtlandt and her husband Varick, hint at her struggles with personal desires versus societal expectations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
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| Subject |
Young women -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Widows -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
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| Subject |
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
37185 |
| Release Date |
Aug 23, 2011 |
| Most Recently Updated |
May 20, 2016 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads |
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