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2023-01-09
Public domain in the USA.
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Dudeney, Henry, Mrs.
1866
1945
Dudeney, Alice
Dudeney, H. E., Mrs.
Dudeney, Mrs. Henry
Folly Corner
$aUnited States :$bHenry Holt and Company,$c1900.
Paul Haxo from images generously made available by the University of Wisconsin, Google and the Hathi Trust Digital Library.
“Folly Corner” by Mrs. Henry Dudeney is a novel written in the late 19th century. This story revolves around themes of social dynamics, romantic intrigues, and the tension between tradition and modernity, primarily focusing on the lives of two women: Pamela Crisp, a young woman from London searching for stability, and Gainah Toat, the long-standing housekeeper at Folly Corner, who fears the change Pamela represents. At the start of “Folly Corner,” readers are introduced to a hot summer day in London, where a young woman, presumably Pamela, ponders her uncertain future before taking a journey to Folly Corner, a family estate. She harbors a sense of dread regarding her cousin, Jethro Jayne, and the presence of the housekeeper Gainah, who has always managed the household with a firm hand. Meanwhile, Jethro, characterized as a charming farmer, wrestles with thoughts about his own desires for change and the mysterious cousin who has responded to his advertisement for a wife. The narrative sets a stage rich with intricate emotional layers, leading to a collision of past loyalties and new beginnings as Pamela contemplates her role in the family and in her own life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
https://books.google.com/books?id=KSXQAAAAMAAJ, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89011718319
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1900
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Reading ease score: 84.4 (6th grade). Easy to read.
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England -- Fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
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Category: Romance
Category: Novels
Category: British Literature
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