02131cam a22003013u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000290011324500440014226400510018630000470023733600260028433700260031033800360033650000310037250801100040352011640051353400450167765300340172265300300175685600430178628267UtSlPG20260610133638.0mcr n260607r2009||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aThompson, George,d1823-10aVenus in Boston: A Romance of City Life 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2009  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2009-03-07  aE-text prepared by Woodie4, Suzanne Shell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team  a"Venus in Boston: A Romance of City Life" by George Thompson is a novel written in the mid-19th century. This work explores the social issues and struggles faced by impoverished characters in an urban setting. The story primarily follows a young fruit vendor named Fanny Aubrey, who faces numerous challenges and predicaments due to her circumstance, including a dangerous encounter with a wealthy man intent on exploiting her vulnerability.  The opening of the novel introduces the bleak winter environment of Boston, where Fanny, a fourteen-year-old girl, struggles to sell fruit on the street to support her ailing grandfather and younger brother. She embodies innocence and grace amidst her degradation. The narrative quickly escalates as she is inadvertently lured into a dangerous situation with a libertine, Mr. Tickels, who seeks to exploit her purity. Through a chance encounter with Corporal Grimsby, an eccentric but kind-hearted old soldier, Fanny is rescued from this predicament, setting the stage for a critique of societal corruption and the protection of virtue amidst the urban vice of the time. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aCity and town life -- Fiction  aBoston (Mass.) -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28267