Papa's own girl: A novel
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Feminist novel by by Utopian socialist author Marie Howland, who has been hailed as "one of the most remarkable figures in nineteenth-century American radicalism."The novel tells the story of a young girl who grows up to fulfill her father's hope that she would become an independent woman. The story is set in a utopian community modeled after the Fourierist "Familistère" community in Guise, France, of which the author was a member for a period of time (later editions ofPapa's Own Girlwere published under the titleThe Familistère). Howland also live at the Topolobampo community in Mexico and th...
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- Papa’s Own Girl; A Novel.
- CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. AN OLD LETTER.
- CHAPTER II. THE SKELETON IN THE GARRET.
- CHAPTER III. DR. FOREST AT HOME.
- CHAPTER IV. ONE OF DR. FOREST’S PATIENTS.
- CHAPTER V. THE TATTOOING.
- CHAPTER VI. CLARA AT STONYBROOK COLLEGE.
- CHAPTER VII. DAN’S BUSINESS OPERATIONS.
- CHAPTER VIII. PHILOSOPHY VANQUISHED.
- CHAPTER IX. THE LION’S DEN.
- CHAPTER X. CLARA’S RETURN—THE DRAMA IN THE DOCTOR’S STUDY.
- CHAPTER XI. FAITH AND WORKS.
- CHAPTER XII. CLARA DECIDES BETWEEN RELIGION AND PRINCIPLE.
- CHAPTER XIII. PAPA’S OWN GIRL.
- CHAPTER XIV. DAN’S MONEY RETURNED—THE DOCTOR CONQUERED.
- CHAPTER XV. THE DOCTOR’S LETTER—DAN REJECTED.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE VISIT OF THE DELANOS.
- CHAPTER XVII. COSTLY GRAPES.
- CHAPTER XVIII. HOW DAN GOT MARRIED.
- CHAPTER XIX. THE BABY.—LOVERS’ ADIEUX.
- CHAPTER XX. CLARA’S WEDDING.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE NUCLEUS OF THE FLOWER BUSINESS.
- CHAPTER XXII. THE FIRST CLOUD.
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE INVITATION TO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
- CHAPTER XXIV. A SPASMODIC MOVEMENT OF LOVE.
- CHAPTER XXV. LETTERS.—A CONVERSATION.
- CHAPTER XXVI. THE CRISIS.
- CHAPTER XXVII. THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. THE EFFECT OF DR. DELANO’S FORGIVENESS.
- CHAPTER XXIX. THE COUNT VON FRAUENSTEIN.
- CHAPTER XXX. OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH.
- CHAPTER XXXI. INTO A BETTER WORLD.
- CHAPTER XXXII. THE DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. LEGITIMATE, OR ILLEGITIMATE.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. THE SLAVE OF THE LAMP.
- CHAPTER XXXV. THE SLAVE OF THE LAMP OBEYS.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. THE COUNT’S SPEECH TO HIS WORKMEN.
- CHAPTER XXXVII. POETIC RETRIBUTION.—GROG-SELLERS INTERVIEWED BY WOMEN.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. PROGRESS OF THE WORK.
- CHAPTER XXXIX. AN HONEST WOMAN.
- CHAPTER XL. UNDER THE ORANGE-BLOSSOMS.
- CHAPTER XLI. AFTER THE ORANGE-BLOSSOMS.
- CHAPTER XLII. A VISIT TO THE SOCIAL PALACE.
- CHAPTER XLIII. THE INAUGURATION OF THE SOCIAL PALACE.
- CHAPTER XLIV. THE BIRTH OF THE HEIR.
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