Project Gutenberg 2004-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 68 Holmes, Mary Jane 1825 1907 Holmes, Mary Jane (Hawes) Holmes, Mary J. Aikenside Reading ease score: 71.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Aikenside" by Mary Jane Holmes is a novel likely written in the mid-19th century. The story revolves around the struggles of a young girl named Madeline Clyde, who aspires to help her impoverished family by becoming a schoolteacher, despite her tender age and the challenges she faces. The community's political and social dynamics serve as a backdrop to her journey, as her grandfather, Grandpa Markham, faces the threat of losing their family home due to a mortgage, heightening the stakes for Madeline's success. The opening of the story introduces the reader to the village of Devonshire, where conflicts arise over the qualifications for teaching and the community's educational politics. Madeline is determined to secure a teaching position to help her grandfather financially, revealing her maturity and sense of responsibility. As preparations for her examination unfold, we get a glimpse of the pressures she faces while living in a society that often undervalues the contributions of young women. Notably, her examination encounter with Dr. Holbrook, who has been elected to assess her qualifications, sets the stage for key developments in the plot, linking her aspirations closely with her family's fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 479222 479278 2024-10-03T11:33:29.661279 2023-10-03T10:09:17.247498 text/html text/html 494736 2021-07-01T17:47:15 text/html; charset=utf-8 176315 2021-07-01T17:49:47 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 280338 2024-10-03T11:33:39.729193 application/epub+zip 280625 2024-10-03T11:33:33.778221 application/epub+zip 271473 2024-10-03T11:33:31.760244 application/epub+zip 445643 2024-10-03T11:33:44.492163 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 422001 2024-10-03T11:33:38.594201 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 393495 2022-09-04T03:50:16.179202 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 460750 460689 2024-10-03T11:33:28.813291 2023-10-03T10:09:16.694472 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 460522 2021-07-01T17:49:03 text/plain; charset=utf-8 171967 2021-07-01T17:49:26 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 19267 2024-10-03T11:33:45.091198 application/rdf+xml 12661 2024-10-03T11:33:32.727217 image/jpeg 3247 2024-10-03T11:33:32.269214 image/jpeg 244686 2024-10-03T11:33:29.705276 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