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100 1 _aLeslie, Emma,
_d1838-1909
245 1 0 _aHetty's garden-party, and what came of it
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-02
520 _a"Hetty's garden-party, and what came of it by Emma Leslie" is a moral children's novella from the Victorian era. It follows a vain but good-hearted girl whose ill-judged attempt at social display leads to embarrassment, debt, and hard lessons about truthfulness, modest living, and useful work. Hetty Golding invites a crowd to a garden-party, pretending she has the right to use a neighbor’s grand garden and skimping on refreshments to keep up appearances. The event collapses into humiliation when the gardener confronts the guests, bills go unpaid, and Hetty’s mother falls gravely ill amid other family worries. Forced to face the consequences, Hetty writes a humble apology, endures public gossip, accepts a small loan to buy necessities, and begins teaching music to support the household. Her uncle later returns, steadies their finances, and Hetty chooses honest industry over showy friendships, repays her debts (including garden damages), and grows into a kinder, steadier young woman. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Sunday School Union, 1892
653 _aEngland -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aYoung women -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aMothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aPride and vanity -- Juvenile fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76619
999 _c117344
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