TY - BOOK AU - Oliphant,Mrs TI - Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 2 (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 2 (of 3)" by Mrs. Oliphant is a novel published in 1883. This volume continues the saga of the Vernon family and their banking house in Redborough. As young Hester navigates society through tea dances and social gatherings, romantic entanglements emerge with Roland, a speculator of questionable character, and Edward, Catherine's favored protégé. Meanwhile, tensions simmer beneath polite Victorian society as Edward's growing discontent with Catherine threatens the stability of both family and fortune. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48198 ER -