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100 1 _aLyster, Annette,
_d1831-1908
245 1 0 _aFan's silken string
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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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-16
520 _a"Fan's silken string" by Annette Lyster is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in rural England, it follows lively but wayward Ben Fairfax and his delicate little sister, Fan, as affection and conscience tug him toward better choices. Blending adventure with Christian moral themes, it contrasts rough cottage life and farm work with the gentler world of a country estate, where a girl named Pearl may become significant to their story. The opening of the novel shows Ben bluffing his way into haymaking work on a Midland farm, charming everyone while secretly sleeping in the loft, pilfering fruit, and teaching a mate to gamble. A chance talk about his sister awakens his conscience, and he slips away at night—wrongly taking wages and a child’s frock—to return to his Kent village. There he finds his father arrested for poaching, his mother and baby dead of fever, and Fan dangerously weak; with the help of kind Mrs. Simmonds, he carries Fan off at night to avoid the workhouse and police. In London they are turned out when Fan’s fever is discovered, then ride partway into the country on a carrier’s waggon until the driver exposes Ben’s lies; hungry and wandering, Ben resists stealing food after Fan’s rebuke and faith-filled trust. The sequence closes with Fan asleep in a small “toy” cottage in a wood—part of the Harewood estate—just as the narrative turns to introduce the warm, well-to-do Harewoods and their cherished daughter, Pearl. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1879
653 _aChristian life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSiblings -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aPoverty -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aYouth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSick children -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aRomance fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77248
999 _c117968
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