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The story follows Emily Bromfield, daughter of a comfortably middle-class family whose fortunes collapse after her father's death, forcing relocation to a provincial town. She resists marriage of convenience, confronts creditors and social pressure, and navigates suitors, compromises, and moral tests that probe ambitions, pride, and independence. Episodes range from domestic humiliation to moments of growth as she questions conventional female roles, faces romantic entanglements and personal sacrifice, and gradually shapes a course between societal expectation and an emerging autonomous self. The narrative balances social realism and psychological insight to examine choice, consequence, and the costs of respectability.

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Title: A Woman Ventures: A Novel

Author: David Graham Phillips

Illustrator: William J. Hurlbut

Release date: January 9, 2022 [eBook #67130]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Grossett & Dunlap, 1902

Credits: D A Alexander, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by University of California libraries)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WOMAN VENTURES: A NOVEL ***

EMILY.

A WOMAN
VENTURES

A NOVEL

BY
DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS

AUTHOR OF
THE FASHIONABLE ADVENTURES OF
JOSHUA CRAIG, THE HUSBAND’S STORY, ETC.

WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
WILLIAM JAMES HURLBUT

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS : : NEW YORK