Project Gutenberg 2011-08-23 Public domain in the USA. 77 Fawcett, Edgar 1847 1904 The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel Reading ease score: 74.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) "The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel" by Edgar Fawcett is a fiction narrative likely written in the late 19th century. The story's central focus revolves around Pauline Van Corlear, a young woman navigating the complexities of society after marrying a significantly older gentleman, Mr. Hamilton Varick. As she transitions from girlhood to widowhood, the narrative seemingly explores themes of independence, societal expectations, and personal transformation. The opening of the novel sets the stage in New York, describing the shifting character of Bond Street, once a bastion of old-world gentility now beset by commercialism. Mr. Varick, a wealthy man returned from Paris, marries eighteen-year-old Pauline, who feels the weight of societal pressure to secure her future through marriage. In the initial chapters, we see Pauline’s internal conflict as she reconciles her ambitions with the constraints imposed by her social world, setting up a storyline rich in both character development and commentary on the era's societal norms. Her early interactions, especially with her cousin Courtlandt and her husband Varick, hint at her struggles with personal desires versus societal expectations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/37185/37185-h/images/cover.jpg en Young women -- Fiction Widows -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 436189 435974 2024-10-15T15:58:41.798626 2023-09-16T08:14:31.057831 text/html text/html 438497 2016-05-20T10:53:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 351446 2016-05-20T10:54:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 373769 2024-10-15T15:58:47.486599 application/epub+zip 379060 2024-10-15T15:58:42.629632 application/epub+zip 234458 2024-10-15T15:58:42.219640 application/epub+zip 515163 2024-10-15T15:58:51.445629 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 492124 2024-10-15T15:58:47.094633 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 347901 2022-09-17T05:34:10.028377 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 416044 415860 2024-10-15T15:58:40.868694 2023-09-16T08:14:30.317836 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 415631 2016-05-20T10:53:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 163305 2016-05-20T10:54:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 415641 2016-05-20T10:53:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 163250 2016-05-20T10:54:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22208 2024-10-15T15:58:51.584588 application/rdf+xml 21493 2024-10-15T15:58:42.306636 image/jpeg 2856 2024-10-15T15:58:42.262632 image/jpeg 348181 2024-10-15T15:58:41.840696 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