Ethelyn's Mistake
Mary Jane Holmes
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Description
Mary J. Holmes, writing as Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, fills the title page with a long list of her earlier novels, and Ethelyn's Mistake stands among them in her uniform series. The contents set out the shape of the story at once: Ethelyn, the Van Buren set, Richard Markham, a bridal, and a honeymoon. Marriage to Richard brings Ethelyn into his mother's household at Olney, where Mrs. Markham's ways soon press hard on the young wife.
Later chapters move through Washington visits, days of waiting, a crisis, and letters, until the husband is left deserted and an investigation follows. Holmes lingers on household detail: soda biscuits made below stairs, relatives like Aunt Barbara in Chicopee, and small rulings that shape a marriage. Readers get a domestic novel of pride, patience, and a union tested over years before its final accounting.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mary Jane Holmes |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 628 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |