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100 1 _aPonsonby, Emily, Lady,
_d1817-1877
245 1 0 _aViolet Osborne, Volume 2 (of 3)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-20
508 _aMWS, PrimeNumber, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _aViolet Osborne, Volume 2 (of 3) by Lady Emily Ponsonby is a novel written in the mid-19th century. It follows the spirited Violet Osborne as she and her parents rebuild a quieter life in an English village after financial ruin, where her hunger for purpose meets parish routine, social duty, and delicate family entanglements. Through work in the church school and music, Violet becomes involved with the pompous yet kindly rector Mr. Pope, the reclusive Sir William Hamilton, his neglected daughter Ida, and Ida’s austere cousin Lionel Vane. Themes of charity, conscience, and self-mastery guide this domestic, village-centered story. The opening of the novel shows the Osbornes settling into a modest cottage, with Violet oscillating between delight in the countryside and despair at idleness until her gentle mother steadies her with the story of her own trial—lifelong deafness—and the discipline that brought peace. A chance encounter with the self-satisfied rector Mr. Pope leads Violet to train the church children in psalmody; she improves the music, reunites with Amy White (now the village schoolmistress), and quietly resumes small acts of charity among the poor. Sir William Hamilton, impressed by the transformed singing, asks Violet to help his daughter Ida, a loving but undereducated child starved for companionship; during a visit, Violet also meets Lionel Vane, Ida’s grave young cousin. Sir William then privately explains the confidential family arrangement binding Ida and Lionel, born from old wrongs between two sisters and Lord Ashford, and secures Violet’s discretion. As Violet’s parish work and friendships grow, Amy receives a modest windfall connected to a past debt—and Lionel approaches Violet, asking to speak about his constrained future, just as this opening section ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Hurst & Blackett, 1865
653 _aGreat Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/violetosborne01pons https://archive.org/details/violetosborne02pons https://archive.org/details/violetosborne03pons
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77991
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