The Clever Woman of the Family
An opinionated young woman seeks to prove her cleverness as she searches for a purpose in life.
Unsatisfied with the rigid gender roles of her small seaside community, Rachel Curtis yearns to use her cleverness to find a purpose in life. Seeking to make the world a better place for women, she dives into intellectual battles, writes opinionated articles, and dreams of liberating oppressed women from lace-making and marriage. Acting as her foils are Lady Temple, a widow with an army of small children, and Miss Williams, a young woman left deformed and scarred by a horrible accident in her youth.
- Listening time
- about 19 h 36 min
- Length
- 182,512 words
- Public domain
- the author died in 1901
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 1.0 MB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Just Added
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How it begins.
Breakfast over, Rachel gathered up her various gifts, and betook herself to a room on the ground floor with all the appliances of an ancient schoolroom. Rather dreamily she took out a number of copybooks, and began to write copies in them in large text hand. “And this is all I am doing for my fellow-creatures,” she muttered half aloud. “One class of half-grown lads, and those grudged to me! Here is the world around one mass of misery and evil!
The Clever Woman of the Family · Charlotte M. Yonge
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