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100 1 _aLe Feuvre, Amy,
_d1861-1929
245 1 0 _aJoan's handful
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aGolden crown series [no. 13]
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-09
520 _a"Joan's handful" by Amy Le Feuvre is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Joan Adair, a warm-hearted, Girton-educated rector’s daughter in an English village, as she wrestles with the pull between a promising teaching career and the claims of home, faith, and parish duty. Around her orbit a gentle, aging father, an exacting, cosmopolitan mother, a fragile sister, old friend Derrick, the sporting Gascoignes, and a reclusive musician, Major Armitage, whose secrecy adds a quiet mystery. The opening of the novel sets Joan at Old Bellerton Rectory, briskly managing household tasks and parish work while sparring good‑naturedly with Derrick and longing for wider intellectual work. Her mother and sister return from the Continent unimpressed by the small rectory and anxious about money and health, unsettling the hopeful rector. As Joan shoulders Saturday chores, church music, and village calls, gossip stirs about Major Armitage’s withdrawn habits and haunting rituals, even as Joan briefly aids a stranger with an injured dog on the heath. Sunday brings a full church, the Gascoignes’ social whirl, and Armitage’s silent presence; a dinner at the Hall pairs Joan in lively talk with the erudite Wilmot Gascoigne, while Derrick needles her about it. Pressed by a deadline for a coveted teaching post, Joan realizes her mother plans fresh travels with Cecil, and she quietly renounces the career to keep the home and parish steady. The section closes with village rumors deepening around Armitage and Cecil’s cheeky attempt to “beard the hermit,” only to be coolly rebuffed. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Pickering & Inglis, 1930
653 _aEngland -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aYoung women -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFamilies -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aVillages -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aMate selection -- Juvenile fiction
830 0 _aGolden crown series [no. 13]
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77651
999 _c118371
_d118371