The Clever Woman of the FamilyFans of Jane Austen and George Eliot will fall in love with Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Clever Woman of the Family, the tale of a headstrong young woman whose strong opinions and heartfelt desires clash with the social strictures of her era. Will Rachel Curtis rise above the stifling conventions of the age and find true and lasting happiness on her own terms? |
Contents
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Chapter IV The Hero | 93 |
Chapter V Military Society | 106 |
Chapter VI Ermines Resolution | 132 |
Chapter VII Waitng for Rose | 159 |
Chapter VIII Womans Mission Discovered | 198 |
Chapter XVII The Siege | 357 |
Chapter XVIII The Forlorn Hope | 377 |
Chapter XIX The Brewst She Brewed | 396 |
Chapter XX The Saracens Head | 408 |
Chapter XXI The Quarter Sessions | 439 |
Chapter XXII The After Clap | 460 |
Chapter XXIII Dear Alexander | 477 |
Chapter XXIV The Honeymoon | 502 |
Chapter IX The New Sport | 222 |
Chapter X The Philanthropist | 236 |
Chapter XI Lady Temples Troubles | 262 |
Chapter XII A Change at the Parsonage | 277 |
Chapter XIII The Fox and the Crow | 291 |
Chapter XIV The Gowanbrae Ball | 307 |
Chapter XV Go and Bray | 325 |
Chapter XVI An Apparition | 336 |
Chapter XXV The Huntsford Croquet | 528 |
Chapter XXVI The End of Cleverness | 541 |
Chapter XXVII The Post Bag | 568 |
Chapter XXVIII Vanity of Vanities | 586 |
Chapter XXIX At Last | 605 |
Chapter XXX Who is the Clever Woman? | 631 |
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