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100	1		_aMartin, Edward Sandford, _d1856-1939
245	1	0	_aReflections of a beginning husband
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-04-17
508			_aTim Miller, chenzw, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"Reflections of a beginning husband" by Edward Sandford Martin is a humorous domestic novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Peregrine Jesup and Cordelia French as they rekindle a broken engagement, marry on a modest income, and navigate the pleasures and pressures of urban life. In witty, reflective episodes it weighs love, money, class expectations, and gender roles, all the way into early parenthood. The opening of the book finds Peregrine proposing a discreet elopement after a first engagement failed under the strain of youth, distance, and finances; a chance meeting on a streetcar leads to a candid park-side talk about “emancipation” from luxuries and the feasibility of marriage on sixty dollars a week. They choose the flat over fanfare, win over their indulgent parents, and set up house, their chief extravagance a capable maid, Matilda Finn, while Peregrine and Cordelia debate food, budgets, politics, and the value of simple pleasures. Domestic details spark broader reflections on muckrakers, money-making, social climbing, and the comforts (and costs) of modern conveniences. A weekend with wealthy friends prompts a lively defense of wanting more—tempered by contentment—and a comic reverence for hot water and bathrooms as emblems of progress. Soon a baby, Samuel, arrives, filling the flat and their days; amid kodak snaps, doting grandparents, and plans for schooling, Peregrine muses on women’s suffrage, the nature of governance, and how motherhood gives Cordelia absorbing purpose while her thrift steadies their household. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1913
653			_aMarriage -- Fiction
653			_aUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/reflectionsofbeg00mart/page/n7/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78473
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