TY - BOOK AU - Oliphant,Mrs TI - Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 1 (of 3) AV - PR PY - 2015/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - England -- Fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - Young women -- Fiction KW - Love stories KW - Domestic fiction KW - Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction KW - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction KW - Older women -- Fiction KW - Conflict of generations -- Fiction KW - Women bankers -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hester_(novel); Release date is 2015-02-08; Produced by Delphine Lettau, Dianne Nolan and the team at Distributed Proofreaders Canada; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 1 (of 3)" by Mrs. Oliphant is a novel published in 1883. When the Vernon family bank nearly collapses, Catherine Vernon uses her fortune to save it. Decades later, young Hester Vernon returns to Redborough as the daughter of the man who caused the crisis. As Hester navigates family tensions, romantic entanglements, and the weight of her father's disgrace, loyalties shift and Edward, Catherine's favored protégé, grows restless with dangerous consequences for the banking house. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48197 ER -