
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
In a crisp early‑spring morning, the streets of Jamestown hum with the ordinary rhythms of schoolchildren, shopkeepers, and horse‑drawn wagons. Among the bustling crowd moves Myron Holder, a diminutive, sturdy woman whose down‑cast eyes and quiet steps set her apart from the town’s lively tableau. She carries the weight of a secret sorrow, a mother navigating a world that watches her with a mixture of curiosity and disdain.
The narrative follows Myron’s day‑to‑day encounters—her tentative visits to the butcher, the grocery, and the quilting‑frame lender—each moment exposing the fragile line between community acceptance and isolation. As listeners drift through her quiet resilience, they’ll feel the pull of a woman caught between societal expectations and an inner yearning for something beyond the judged confines of her life.
Language
en
Duration
~9 hours (531K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Al Haines
Release date
Feb 28, 2019
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1867–1927
A Scottish-born Canadian novelist once hailed as one of Canada’s leading fiction writers, she built a wide readership with emotionally intense stories and strong-willed heroines. By the early 1900s, she was noted as one of the country’s best-paid authors of fiction.
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