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19 totalTHE WIDOW BARNABY. - BY FRANCES TROLLOPE, - AUTHOR OF "THE VICAR OF WREXHILL," "A ROMANCE OF VIENNA," ETC. - IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. - LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. - 1839. - LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
THE WIDOW BARNABY.
CHAPTER I. - DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING A YOUNG LADY'S APPEARANCE AT A BALL.—A WET SUNDAY.—DIFFERENCE OF TASTE.
CHAPTER II. - THE BALL.
CHAPTER III. - MELANCHOLY MEDITATIONS.—AN EVENTFUL WALK.—A PLEASANT BREAKFAST.—A COMFORTABLE CONVERSATION IN A CLOSET.
CHAPTER IV. - A TETE-A-TETE IN A DRAWING-ROOM.—AUTOBIOGRAPHY.—A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY CONCERNING THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
CHAPTER V. - A YOUNG LADY'S PLOT.—A CONSULTATION, AND THE HAPPY RESULT OF IT.—A TERRIBLE INTERRUPTION, AND A DANGEROUS EXPEDITION.—CONFIDENTIAL INTERCOURSE.
CHAPTER VI. - THE READER IS LET INTO A SECRET, AND THE YOUNG LADY'S PLOT PROVED TO BE OF NO AVAIL.—A JUDICIOUS MODE OF OBTAINING INFORMATION.—A HAPPY AND VERY WELL-TIMED MEETING.
CHAPTER VII. - TRANSIENT HAPPINESS.—AN ACCIDENT, LEADING TO THE DISCOVERY OF AN UNKNOWN TALENT IN MISS WILLOUGHBY, AND UNEXPECTED APPRECIATION OF IT IN COLONEL HUBERT.—SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE PECULIARITIES OF THE FEMALE MIND.
CHAPTER VIII. - SOME FARTHER PARTICULARS RESPECTING THE STATE OF MRS. BARNABY'S HEART.—TENDER DOUBTS AND FEARS, ON THE PART OF THE MAJOR, ALL SET TO REST BY THE GENTLE KINDNESS OF THE WIDOW.—SOME ACCOUNT OF MRS. PETERS'S CONCERT, AND OF THE TERRIBLE EVENTS WHICH FOLLOWED IT.
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In the bustling streets of early‑Victorian London, a determined widow sets her sights on securing a proper debut for her niece. She has already paid for both a library subscription and a series of society balls, hoping the glittering events will introduce the young Agnes to fashionable circles. The aunt’s enthusiasm is matched only by her insistence that appearances—scarf, gloves, shoes—should reflect respectability, even as she prepares cutlets for a modest dinner.
Agnes, sixteen and half, feels the weight of those expectations. Though grateful for her aunt’s generosity, she worries she lacks the proper attire and fears the social scrutiny a first ball will bring. Torn between obedience and her own modesty, she teeters on the edge of a decision that could shape her place in the world—whether to step onto the dance floor or remain safely at home.
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Produced by Delphine Lettau, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2011-06-30
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Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Frances Milton Trollope
1780–1863
A sharp-eyed English novelist and travel writer, she turned family hardship into an astonishingly productive literary career. Best known for Domestic Manners of the Americans, she wrote with energy, wit, and a strong interest in the social questions of her time.
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