Project Gutenberg 2011-02-11 Public domain in the USA. 184 Hume, Fergus 1859 1932 Hume, Ferguson Wright Hume, Fergus W. (Ferguson Wright) A Woman's Burden: A Novel Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "A Woman's Burden: A Novel" by Fergus Hume is a work of fiction likely written in the late 19th century. The novel opens with a dramatic scene on Waterloo Bridge, where various characters are thrust into a dark and gritty narrative marked by themes of poverty, desperation, and crime. The central character introduced in this opening is Miriam, a woman of poverty who intervenes to save an elderly gentleman from an attempted robbery by a man named Jabez, setting off a chain of events that involves crime, survival, and complex human dynamics. At the start of the story, the atmosphere on Waterloo Bridge is thick with fog and foreboding, reflecting the struggles of the city's downtrodden. Miriam's selfless act of saving the gentleman from a dire fate reveals not only her physical bravery but also hints at deeper struggles and motivations tied to her relationship with Jabez. The gentleman, later revealed to be Mr. Barton, becomes intrigued by Miriam and offers her assistance, which introduces a tension-filled relationship filled with mutual reliance and latent conflict. This prologue sets the stage for a narrative woven around themes of social class, moral ambiguity, and the burdens carried by women like Miriam, suggesting her complex journey ahead in a world rife with challenges. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35240/35240-h/images/cover.jpg file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/35240/35240-h/images/cover.jpg en London (England) -- Fiction Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Siblings -- Fiction Criminals -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 581241 581264 2024-09-15T04:32:44.790006 2023-09-15T10:17:12.381368 text/html text/html 588655 2014-05-18T09:26:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 408744 2014-05-18T09:26:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 433724 2024-09-15T04:32:52.244910 application/epub+zip 441881 2024-09-15T04:32:45.794946 application/epub+zip 291449 2024-09-15T04:32:45.288978 application/epub+zip 629180 2024-09-15T04:32:57.906930 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 592303 2024-09-15T04:32:51.742084 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 442247 2022-09-16T07:46:05.462157 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 550660 550437 2024-09-15T04:32:43.150034 2023-09-15T10:17:10.876381 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 550487 2014-05-18T09:26:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 213274 2014-05-18T09:26:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 550481 2014-05-18T09:26:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 213220 2014-05-18T09:26:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21081 2024-09-15T04:32:58.061889 application/rdf+xml 20581 2024-09-15T04:32:45.385990 image/jpeg 2459 2024-09-15T04:32:45.337947 image/jpeg 409748 2024-09-15T04:32:44.846951 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