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An Ambitious Woman: A Novel

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By Edgar Fawcett
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A young woman raised in a modest, gray suburb endeavors to rise above her surroundings, balancing family duties and personal ambition. The narrative sketches the neighborhood's dreary streets and cramped homes against the bustling metropolis nearby, showing how environment shapes aspiration. Early scenes show her scholastic promise and the cautious notice of teachers and a well-to-do social figure, setting the stage for choices about education, manners, and social advancement. The novel follows her struggles within domestic constraints while satirizing affectation, probing themes of class mobility, identity, and the costs of social striving.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Ellipses left as per original.

The upside-down asterisms are denoted by *.*

The table of contents has been created just for the html version.

The numbers in the catalog at the end have been changed into Roman numerals.

The remaining corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will appear.

Multiple spellings not changed:

  • ain't, aint
  • 'Tain't, 'T ain't
  • cobble-stones, cobblestones
  • melo-dramatic, melodramatic
  • p'raps, p'r'aps
  • schoolfellows, school-fellows
  • undercurrent, under-current
  • woodwork, wood-work
  • staunch, stanch
  • subtle, subtile
  • loyal, leal

Also kept as it appears in the original:

Pg. 125 "what her dead had been"