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100 1 _aDudeney, Henry, Mrs.,
_d1866-1945
245 1 0 _aFolly Corner
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2023
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2023-01-09
508 _aPaul Haxo from images generously made available by the University of Wisconsin, Google and the Hathi Trust Digital Library.
520 _a“Folly Corner” by Mrs. Henry Dudeney is a novel written in the late 19th century. This story revolves around themes of social dynamics, romantic intrigues, and the tension between tradition and modernity, primarily focusing on the lives of two women: Pamela Crisp, a young woman from London searching for stability, and Gainah Toat, the long-standing housekeeper at Folly Corner, who fears the change Pamela represents. At the start of “Folly Corner,” readers are introduced to a hot summer day in London, where a young woman, presumably Pamela, ponders her uncertain future before taking a journey to Folly Corner, a family estate. She harbors a sense of dread regarding her cousin, Jethro Jayne, and the presence of the housekeeper Gainah, who has always managed the household with a firm hand. Meanwhile, Jethro, characterized as a charming farmer, wrestles with thoughts about his own desires for change and the mysterious cousin who has responded to his advertisement for a wife. The narrative sets a stage rich with intricate emotional layers, leading to a collision of past loyalties and new beginnings as Pamela contemplates her role in the family and in her own life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: Henry Holt and Company, 1900
653 _aEngland -- Fiction
653 _aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://books.google.com/books?id=KSXQAAAAMAAJ, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89011718319
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69758
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