Round the Corner / Being the Life and Death of Francis Christopher Folyat, Bachelor of Divinity, and Father of a Large Family

The novel traces the life of Francis Christopher Folyat within a shrinking gentility, following domestic scenes, church appointments, and the social circles that influence him. Episodic chapters depict marriages, friendships, romantic complications, artistic and philosophical debates, and family tensions that reshape fortunes and responsibilities. Attention moves between parents, lovers, and children as individual choices reverberate through households, exposing moral dilemmas about duty, conscience, and personal liberty. The narrative combines intimate realism with reflective commentary on identity, inheritance, and the constraints of social expectation, presenting an extended study of how character and circumstance evolve together.