Project Gutenberg 2004-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 213 Holmes, Mary Jane 1825 1907 Holmes, Mary Jane (Hawes) Holmes, Mary J. Aikenside Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Aikenside" by Mary Jane Holmes is a novel likely written in the mid-19th century. The story revolves around the struggles of a young girl named Madeline Clyde, who aspires to help her impoverished family by becoming a schoolteacher, despite her tender age and the challenges she faces. The community's political and social dynamics serve as a backdrop to her journey, as her grandfather, Grandpa Markham, faces the threat of losing their family home due to a mortgage, heightening the stakes for Madeline's success. The opening of the story introduces the reader to the village of Devonshire, where conflicts arise over the qualifications for teaching and the community's educational politics. Madeline is determined to secure a teaching position to help her grandfather financially, revealing her maturity and sense of responsibility. As preparations for her examination unfold, we get a glimpse of the pressures she faces while living in a society that often undervalues the contributions of young women. Notably, her examination encounter with Dr. Holbrook, who has been elected to assess her qualifications, sets the stage for key developments in the plot, linking her aspirations closely with her family's fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 71.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 479359 2025-06-03T10:35:19.459662 text/html 494736 2021-07-01T17:47:15 text/html; charset=utf-8 176315 2021-07-01T17:49:47 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 280314 2025-06-03T10:35:28.390599 application/epub+zip 280513 2025-06-03T10:35:22.682618 application/epub+zip 271361 2025-06-03T10:35:21.368627 application/epub+zip 445647 2025-06-03T10:35:32.951610 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 422001 2025-06-03T10:35:27.548648 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 393495 2022-09-04T03:50:16.179202 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 460750 2025-06-03T10:35:18.907664 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 460522 2021-07-01T17:49:03 text/plain; charset=utf-8 171967 2021-07-01T17:49:26 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18273 2025-06-03T10:35:33.087595 application/rdf+xml 12661 2025-06-03T10:35:21.932636 image/jpeg 3247 2025-06-03T10:35:21.646639 image/jpeg 244727 2025-06-03T10:35:19.503672 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