Project Gutenberg 2009-03-07 Public domain in the USA. 203 Thompson, George 1823 Greenhorn Venus in Boston: A Romance of City Life E-text prepared by Woodie4, Suzanne Shell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Venus in Boston: A Romance of City Life" by George Thompson is a novel written in the mid-19th century. This work explores the social issues and struggles faced by impoverished characters in an urban setting. The story primarily follows a young fruit vendor named Fanny Aubrey, who faces numerous challenges and predicaments due to her circumstance, including a dangerous encounter with a wealthy man intent on exploiting her vulnerability. The opening of the novel introduces the bleak winter environment of Boston, where Fanny, a fourteen-year-old girl, struggles to sell fruit on the street to support her ailing grandfather and younger brother. She embodies innocence and grace amidst her degradation. The narrative quickly escalates as she is inadvertently lured into a dangerous situation with a libertine, Mr. Tickels, who seeks to exploit her purity. Through a chance encounter with Corporal Grimsby, an eccentric but kind-hearted old soldier, Fanny is rescued from this predicament, setting the stage for a critique of societal corruption and the protection of virtue amidst the urban vice of the time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 61.6 (8th & 9th grade). 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