Project Gutenberg 2017-01-20 Public domain in the USA. 228 McNeely, Marian Hurd 1877 1930 Marian Kent Hurd Wilson, Jean Bingham Gibbs, George 1870 1942 Gibbs, George Fort When She Came Home from College E-text prepared by Emmy, MWS, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images digitized by the Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com) and generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "When She Came Home from College" by Marian Hurd McNeely and Jean Bingham Wilson is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows Barbara Grafton, a recent college graduate who returns home to her family in a small Midwestern town, seeking to balance her ambitions for literary success with her responsibilities at home. Themes of personal growth, family dynamics, and the tensions between tradition and progress emerge as Barbara navigates her new life and the challenges of managing her domestic environment. The opening of the novel introduces us to Barbara and her college friends reveling in their last moments together as graduates, filled with both excitement and apprehension about their futures. Upon returning home, Barbara is met with the hustle and bustle of family life, which starkly contrasts with her scholarly pursuits at college. As she attempts to establish a balance in her domestic sphere while also longing to write and make her mark in the literary world, she encounters unexpected obstacles, including a lack of household help, an overwhelming family dynamic, and her own high expectations. This initial section sets the stage for Barbara's journey of self-discovery as she grapples with the responsibilities of adulthood while holding onto her dreams. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Domestic fiction Housekeeping -- Fiction Families -- Fiction Household employees -- Fiction Women college graduates -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature 340300 2025-07-21T12:30:13.589128 text/html 321229 2024-10-23T01:40:33 text/html 1448112 2025-07-21T12:30:19.630152 application/epub+zip 1444451 2025-07-21T12:30:14.816133 application/epub+zip 213729 2025-07-21T12:30:14.296113 application/epub+zip 1539113 2025-07-21T12:30:23.204089 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1506190 2025-07-21T12:30:19.087125 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 277125 2022-09-24T15:33:35.573463 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 296481 2025-07-21T12:30:12.884122 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 276406 2024-10-23T01:40:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19138 2025-07-21T12:30:23.352053 application/rdf+xml 15197 2025-07-21T12:30:14.397122 image/jpeg 2572 2025-07-21T12:30:14.351112 image/jpeg 1356987 2025-07-21T12:30:13.644174 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia