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100 1 _aGiberne, Agnes,
_d1845-1939
245 1 0 _aMiss Primrose
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-19
505 0 _aMiss Primrose -- A strange will.
520 _a"Miss Primrose" by Agnes Giberne is a domestic novel written in the late 19th century. It follows capable, plain-spoken Pauline Ogilvie as she tries to steady her feckless father’s finances, find respectable work, and face the emotional crosscurrents stirred by the genial Leonard Rudge and the captivating Viola Primrose—while an old tie between her father and “Miss Primrose” complicates matters. Set between a quiet seaside town and London drawing rooms, the tale weighs duty, economy, and pride against the hazards of first impressions and romantic misreadings. The opening of the novel shows Pauline pressing her indecisive father to write an old friend for advice as their funds dwindle, while a kind fellow-lodger, Leonard Rudge, becomes part of their daily life and Pauline’s quiet hope. After weeks of delay, a postcard summons Pauline to London as a temporary companion, where she meets the sparkling Viola Primrose and learns that the “real” Miss Primrose is Viola’s aunt, Mrs. Palmer—her father’s former fiancée—now convalescent and wealthy. Rudge proves closely connected to them, and Viola’s impending marriage to him is treated as a given. Returning with them to the seaside for a brief visit, a cliffside picnic ends in danger when rockfall strikes; Pauline pushes Viola to safety and is herself injured, leaving the relationships and motives around her charged with new feeling. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: John F. Shaw & Co., Ltd., 1896
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aYoung women -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aMerchants -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aWills -- Juvenile fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76528
999 _c117253
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