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100 1 _aGuernsey, Lucy Ellen,
_d1826-1899
245 1 0 _aClaribel
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
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aThe Round Spring stories
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-26
520 _a"Claribel" by Lucy Ellen Guernsey is a novel written in the late 19th century. It centers on Claribel Woodworth, a physically disabled and embittered heiress sent to a girls’ boarding school, where kindness, Christian teaching, and everyday acts of service challenge her suspicion and self-absorption. Early friendships—especially with the warm but scatterbrained Fanny Morey—and tensions with a vain cousin, Priscilla, test whether Claribel can grow in grace and usefulness. The opening of this novel introduces a new arrival at the Hausen school: Claribel, in deep mourning and walking with a crutch, whom the kindly girls plan to welcome. Suspicious and wounded, she misreads their motives, even mistaking their jokes about a three-legged school cat (Bab) as mockery of herself, until Mr. Hausen calmly corrects her and counsels her to read the Gospels daily and look for small ways to help others. Flashbacks reveal the roots of her bitterness—childhood injury, indulgent but unhelpful care, taunts from cousins, and a guardian’s decision to send her away after her father’s death. As Claribel begins to soften, she befriends Fanny by helping with studies and knitting, and her drawing talent flourishes; a false rumor from Rebecca Stiney about “ghostwritten” compositions is defused. Tensions rise when cousin Priscilla arrives flaunting fashion, flouting rules, and luring Fanny into carelessness, leading to a quarrel that Claribel tries to mend. In parallel, Claribel quietly takes responsibility for little Madge when a teacher falls ill and turns to prayer for strength, while Fanny’s slipping work and love of “yellow-covered” novels draw gentle but firm rebuke, setting the stage for further trials of character and friendship. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPhiladelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1873
653 _aChristian life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSchools -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSunday school literature
653 _aTeenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aPeople with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction
830 0 _aThe Round Spring stories
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78044
999 _c118764
_d118764