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100 1 _aPonsonby, Emily, Lady,
_d1817-1877
245 1 0 _aViolet Osborne, Volume 3 (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 _a"Violet Osborne, Volume 3 (of 3)" by Lady Emily Ponsonby is a novel written in the mid-19th century. Set among English country houses and villages, it follows Violet Osborne, Lionel Vane, and Ida Hamilton as acts of charity, personal conscience, and romantic expectations collide, exploring themes of duty, pride, and moral growth. The opening of the novel shows Lionel returning home and, while delaying any decision about his long-assumed match with Ida, throwing himself into philanthropic schemes, including a small school to train girls for service—a plan Violet helps shape. Winter floods bring local hardship, and Violet and Ida run a subsidized food store; meanwhile, Violet and her cousin Albert receive an unexpected legacy, and Albert hints that Leicester is soon to return from India. At Lionel’s village feast, during a sudden shower, he impulsively confesses to Violet that he loves her, not Ida; Violet rebukes him and leaves. The next day Lionel asks Ida to keep the engagement in suspense, but she calmly ends it, determined to be honest with her father and Lord Ashford; Violet, stricken yet steadfast, supports Ida in framing the truth kindly. Sir William accepts the change with cool severity; Lord Ashford is deeply wounded and unjustly suspicious, while Ida resumes her duties with quiet courage, even drawing her father into village concerns. (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/77992
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