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Probation

Chapter 55: BENTLEY’S FAVOURITE NOVELS.
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The novel opens in a Lancashire weaving shed, vividly portraying the mechanical rhythm of looms and the dust-laden atmosphere, and focuses on a competent, proud young overlooker whose exacting eye and reserve set him apart from his fellow workers. Through detailed factory scenes and interactions between workmen and overseers, it explores tensions of class pride, skilled labor, and personal temperament, and traces how industrial routine, social expectations, and moral testing shape relationships and choices among the town’s inhabitants.

BENTLEY’S FAVOURITE NOVELS.

Each work can be had separately, price 6s., of all Booksellers in Town or Country.

By Mrs. HENRY WOOD.

East Lynne. (150th Thousand.)
The Channings. (40th Thous.)
Mrs. Halliburton’s Troubles.
Anne Hereford.
Bessy Rane.
Court Netherleigh.
Dene Hollow.
Edina.
Elster’s Folly.
George Canterbury’s Will.
Johnny Ludlow. (1st Series.)
Johnny Ludlow. (2d Series.)
Johnny Ludlow. (3d Series.)
Lady Adelaide.
Life’s Secret, A.
Lord Oakburn’s Daughters.
Master of Greylands.
Mildred Arkell.
Orville College.
Oswald Cray.
Parkwater.
Pomeroy Abbey.
Red Court Farm.
Roland Yorke.
(A Sequel to ‘The Channings.’)
Shadow of Ashlydyat.
St. Martin’s Eve.
(A Sequel to ‘Mildred Arkell.’)
Trevlyn Hold.
Verner’s Pride.
Within the Maze.

By FRANCES M. PEARD.

Near Neighbours.

By HAWLEY SMART.

Breezie Langton.

By Mrs. ALEXANDER.

Look before you Leap.
Her Dearest Foe.
The Admiral’s Ward.
The Executor.
The Freres.
The Wooing o’t.
Which shall it be?

By Mrs. ANNIE EDWARDES.

Ought We to Visit Her?
A Girton Girl.
Leah: a Woman of Fashion.
A Ball-Room Repentance.

By Mrs. RIDDELL.

George Geith of Fen Court.
Berna Boyle.
Susan Drummond.

By Mrs. PARR.

Adam and Eve.
Dorothy Fox.

ANONYMOUS.

The Last of the Cavaliers.

By J. SHERIDAN LE FANU.

Uncle Silas.
The House by the Churchyard.
In a Glass Darkly.

By MARCUS CLARKE.

For the Term of his Natural Life.

By Baroness TAUTPHŒUS.

The Initials.
Quits!

By MARIE CORELLI.

Vendetta.
A Romance of Two Worlds. P.T.O.

By RHODA BROUGHTON.

Dr. Cupid.
Cometh up as a Flower.
Good-bye, Sweetheart!
Joan.
Nancy.
Not Wisely, but too Well.
Red as a Rose is She.
Second Thoughts.
Belinda.

By ROSA N. CAREY.

Wee Wifie.
Barbara Heathcote’s Trial.
Nellie’s Memories.
Not like Other Girls.
Robert Ord’s Atonement.
Wooed and Married.
Uncle Max.

By JESSIE FOTHERGILL.

The ‘First Violin.’
Borderland.
Healey.
Kith and Kin.
Probation.

By HELEN MATHERS.

Comin’ thro’ the Rye.
Sam’s Sweetheart.

By ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

The Three Clerks.

By Mrs. NOTLEY.

Olive Varcoe.

By F. MONTGOMERY.

Misunderstood.
Seaforth.
Thrown Together.

By JANE AUSTEN.

(The only Complete Edition, besides the Steventon Edition, 63s.)

Emma.
Lady Susan, and The Watsons.
Mansfield Park.
Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
Pride and Prejudice.
Sense and Sensibility.

By Lady G. FULLERTON.

Ellen Middleton.
Ladybird.
Too Strange not to be True.

By W. CLARK RUSSELL.

An Ocean Free Lance.

By CHARLES READE.

A Perilous Secret.

By Hon. LEWIS WINGFIELD.

Lady Grizel.

BENTLEY’S FOREIGN FAVOURITE NOVELS.

By HECTOR MALOT.

No Relations. [With numerous Illustrations.]

By Mrs. AUGUSTUS CRAVEN.

A Sister’s Story.

By E. WERNER.

Success: and how he won it.
Under a Charm.
No Surrender.

LONDON
RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON ST.
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.