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Edith Lyle

Chapter 1: Edith Lyle A Novel.
By Mary Jane Holmes
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A woman raised in difficult circumstances faces a hidden family past and changing fortunes as relationships, social expectations, and secrets shape her life. The narrative follows the heroine from youth through marriage and return to her rural community, tracing revelations about parentage, strained class relations, romantic rivalries, and a scandal that threatens reputations. Courtships, misunderstandings, illness, and reconciliations unfold alongside domestic episodes and community events, culminating in uncovered truths, reckonings within families, and marriages that resolve earlier conflicts.

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Title: Edith Lyle

A novel

Author: Mary Jane Holmes

Release date: May 19, 2023 [eBook #70808]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: G. W. Carleton and Company, 1876

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POPULAR NOVELS.

BY

Mrs. Mary J. Holmes.

1.—
TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE.
2.—
ENGLISH ORPHANS.
3.—
HOMESTEAD ON THE HILLSIDE.
4.—
‘LENA RIVERS.
5.—
MEADOW BROOK.
6.—
DORA DEANE.
7.—
COUSIN MAUDE.
8.—
MARIAN GRAY.
9.—
DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT.
10.—
HUGH WORTHINGTON.
11.—
CAMERON PRIDE.
12.—
ROSE MATHER.
13.—
ETHELYN’S MISTAKE.
14.—
MILLBANK.
15.—
EDNA BROWNING.
16.—
WEST LAWN.
17.—
EDITH LYLE. (New.)
“Mrs. Holmes is a peculiarly pleasant and fascinating writer. Her books are always entertaining, and she has the rare faculty of enlisting the sympathy and affections of her readers, and of holding their attention to her pages with deep and absorbing interest.”
All published uniform with this volume. Price $1.50 each and sent free by mail, on receipt of price, by
G. W. CARLETON & CO., Publishers,
New York.

Edith Lyle
A Novel.

BY
Mrs. MARY J. HOLMES,
AUTHOR OF
TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE—LENA RIVERS—MEADOW BROOK—MARIAN GREY—CAMERON PRIDE—ETHELYN’S MISTAKE—EDNA BROWNING—WEST LAWN, ETC., ETC.
NEW YORK:
G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers.
LONDON: S. LOW & CO.
MDCCCLXXVI.
Copyright, 1876, by
DANIEL HOLMES.
John F. Trow & Son,
Printers and Stereotypers,
205–213 East 12th Street,
NEW YORK.
TO
MY ESTEEMED FRIENDS,
Francis S. Street and Francis S. Smith,
Editors of the New York Weekly,
TO WHOM
I AM INDEBTED FOR SO MANY KINDNESSES IN THE PAST,
I DEDICATE
THIS STORY.