The Emancipated
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Miriam Baske, a young widow, leaves behind the gray stone chapels and flinty hearts of Lancashire for the sun and artistic splendor of Italy -- where she meets a host of her countrymen doing the Grand Tour.To Miriam's surprise, the English abroad are a different breed from those back in the bay of Naples, passion rules over reason. But will life change when they return to their own hearthsides?Reminiscent of George Eliot's Middlemarch , The Emancipated tells us as much about Victorian society -- with all its prejudices and rigid conventions -- as it does about one's woman's growth to human und...
Chapters (40)
- The Emancipated
- George Gissing
- CONTENTS
- PART I
- PART II
- PART I.
- CHAPTER I NORTHERNERS IN SUNLIGHT
- CHAPTER II CECILY DORAN
- CHAPTER III THE BOARDING-HOUSE ON THE MERGELLINA
- CHAPTER IV MIRIAM'S BROTHER
- CHAPTER V THE ARTIST ASTRAY
- CHAPTER VI CAPTIVE TRAVELLERS
- CHAPTER VII THE MARTYR
- CHAPTER VIII PROOF AGAINST ILLUSION
- CHAPTER IX IN THE DEAD CITY
- CHAPTER X THE DECLARATION
- CHAPTER XI THE APPEAL TO AUTHORITY
- CHAPTER XII ON THE HEIGHTS
- CHAPTER XIII ECHO AND PRELUDE
- CHAPTER XIV ON THE WINGS OF THE MORNING
- CHAPTER XV "WOLF!"
- CHAPTER XVI LETTERS
- PART II.
- CHAPTER I A CORNER OF SOCIETY
- CHAPTER II THE PROPRIETIES DEFENDED
- CHAPTER III GRADATION
- CHAPTER IV THE DENYERS IN ENGLAND
- CHAPTER V MULTUM IN PARVO
- CHAPTER VI AT PAESTUM
- CHAPTER VII LEARNING AND TEACHING
- CHAPTER VIII STUMBLINGS
- CHAPTER IX SILENCES
- CHAPTER X ELGAR AT WORK
- CHAPTER XI IN DUE COURSE
- CHAPTER XII CECILY'S RETURN
- CHAPTER XIII ONWARD TO THE VAGUE
- CHAPTER XIV SUGGESTION AND ASSURANCE
- CHAPTER XV PEACE IN SHOW AND PEACE IN TRUTH
- CHAPTER XVI THE TWO FACES
- CHAPTER XVII END AND BEGINNING
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