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100 1 _aFawcett, Edgar,
_d1847-1904
245 1 4 _aThe Adventures of a Widow: A Novel
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2011
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2011-08-23
508 _aE-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org)
520 _a"The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel" by Edgar Fawcett is a fiction narrative likely written in the late 19th century. The story's central focus revolves around Pauline Van Corlear, a young woman navigating the complexities of society after marrying a significantly older gentleman, Mr. Hamilton Varick. As she transitions from girlhood to widowhood, the narrative seemingly explores themes of independence, societal expectations, and personal transformation. The opening of the novel sets the stage in New York, describing the shifting character of Bond Street, once a bastion of old-world gentility now beset by commercialism. Mr. Varick, a wealthy man returned from Paris, marries eighteen-year-old Pauline, who feels the weight of societal pressure to secure her future through marriage. In the initial chapters, we see Pauline’s internal conflict as she reconciles her ambitions with the constraints imposed by her social world, setting up a storyline rich in both character development and commentary on the era's societal norms. Her early interactions, especially with her cousin Courtlandt and her husband Varick, hint at her struggles with personal desires versus societal expectations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aYoung women -- Fiction
653 _aWidows -- Fiction
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
653 _aNew York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37185
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