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The narrative follows Gwen, who undertakes deliberate experiments to provoke feeling yet finds herself emotionally numb; a near-fatal railway incident in which her husband acts to save a child exposes their growing estrangement and her bewilderment at her own indifference. Domestic scenes alternate with social encounters and artistic circles, revealing tensions between duty, aestheticism, and moral curiosity. Male characters respond with practical steadiness or artistic restlessness, while conversations and small domestic rituals highlight conflicts of passion, self-control, and societal expectation as the couple and their acquaintances negotiate intimacy, reputation, and the consequences of deliberate emotional restraint.

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Title: A Yellow Aster, Volume 3 (of 3)

Author: Mrs. Mannington Caffyn

Release date: December 21, 2020 [eBook #64095]

Language: English

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A Yellow Aster

BY

Iota

“And if this fought-for climax is ever reached
and science, creeping along the path of experiment,
so invades the realm of Nature that a blue chrysanthemum
or A Yellow Aster can be produced at
will, the question still remains, has Nature been
made more beautiful thereby?”
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. III

London 1894

HUTCHINSON & CO.
34 PATERNOSTER ROW
PRINTED AT NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND)
BY H. C. A. THIEME OF NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND)
AND
TALBOT HOUSE, ARUNDEL STREET
LONDON, W.C.