Project Gutenberg 2008-10-07 Public domain in the USA. 64 Warner, Susan 1819 1885 Wetherell, Elizabeth Warner, Susan Bogert A Red Wallflower Produced by Daniel Fromont "A Red Wallflower" by Susan Warner is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story follows Colonel Gainsborough, a retired army officer who relocates to a small Connecticut village with his wife and young daughter, Esther. Following Mrs. Gainsborough's death, the narrative focuses on Esther's relationship with her father and the budding friendship with a young man named Pitt Dallas, as they navigate themes of grief, education, and the search for companionship. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to the Gainsborough family, grappling with the loss of the mother figure, which has left both Colonel Gainsborough and Esther in a state of mourning and isolation. The opening chapters depict their quiet lives in New England, where Colonel Gainsborough's aloofness and increasing sadness deeply affect his daughter, who yearns for connection and understanding. A chance friendship with Pitt Dallas revitalizes Esther's spirits, bringing her a sense of purpose as he becomes her tutor and confidant, but the shadows of grief and the complexity of their lives loom large as the story unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 970445 970393 2024-09-11T10:53:32.457337 2023-09-12T04:57:59.430649 text/html text/html 970438 970386 2024-09-11T10:53:32.804332 2023-09-12T04:57:59.665677 text/html text/html 398806 2024-09-11T10:53:45.089239 application/epub+zip 414152 2024-09-11T10:53:34.672287 application/epub+zip 414152 2024-09-11T10:53:33.616305 application/epub+zip 743846 2024-09-11T10:53:53.053245 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 672521 2024-09-11T10:53:44.201286 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 672915 2022-09-12T11:31:37.526866 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 861851 861842 2024-09-11T10:53:31.721321 2023-09-12T04:57:58.777622 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 861731 2021-01-04T05:41:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 320644 2021-01-04T05:41:11 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 861723 2021-01-04T05:41:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 320609 2021-01-04T05:41:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19268 2024-09-11T10:53:53.203221 application/rdf+xml 13408 2024-09-11T10:53:33.964315 image/jpeg 3500 2024-09-11T10:53:33.790298 image/jpeg 394043 2024-09-11T10:53:32.885312 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