Project Gutenberg 2005-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 103 Daviess, Maria Thompson 1872 1924 The Tinder-Box Produced by Kentuckiana Digital Library, David Garcia, Chuck Greif, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "The Tinder-Box" by Maria Thompson Daviess is a novel published in the early 20th century that explores themes of love, independence, and the evolving role of women in society. The story follows Evelina Shelby, a recently graduated architecture student returning to her hometown, Glendale, Tennessee, where she grapples with her newfound aspirations for personal freedom and the societal expectations surrounding marriage and gender roles. The opening of the novel introduces the protagonist, Evelina, as she reflects on her emotional landscape and her relationships with her friends, particularly Jane Mathers, who encourages her to assert herself in love and life. Evelina is posed with a challenge: to navigate her feelings for Richard Hall and Polk Hayes while also being urged to take responsibility for guiding other young women in their romantic choices. Throughout these early pages, we see Evelina's internal conflict between traditional societal roles and her desire for independence, setting the stage for her journey of self-discovery and empowerment amidst the complexities of familial and romantic expectations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Love stories Sex role -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Women -- Suffrage -- Fiction Tennessee -- Fiction Harpeth Valley (Tenn.) -- Fiction Sex differences -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Gender & Sexuality Studies Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 344227 344234 2024-09-06T13:30:37.649461 2023-09-07T05:11:19.683258 text/html text/html 351167 2020-12-19T08:42:23 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 379998 2020-12-19T08:42:23 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 439836 2024-09-06T13:30:45.178441 application/epub+zip 443363 2024-09-06T13:30:40.519430 application/epub+zip 186593 2024-09-06T13:30:38.345449 application/epub+zip 570890 2024-09-06T13:30:48.692428 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 536998 2024-09-06T13:30:44.359434 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 281366 2022-09-07T18:44:00.975697 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 299841 299720 2024-09-06T13:30:36.955465 2023-09-07T05:11:18.971250 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 299648 2020-12-19T08:42:23 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 116742 2020-12-19T08:42:23 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 299640 2020-12-19T08:42:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 116711 2020-12-19T08:42:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22026 2024-09-06T13:30:48.828371 application/rdf+xml 11093 2024-09-06T13:30:39.903418 image/jpeg 3056 2024-09-06T13:30:39.721493 image/jpeg 425700 2024-09-06T13:30:37.698463 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia