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Shuttle.
Title:
Shuttle.
Author:
Burnett, Frances Hodgson.
ISBN:
9781776534425
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (738 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Chapter I - The Weaving of the Shuttle -- Chapter II - A Lack of Perception -- Chapter III - Young Lady Anstruthers -- Chapter IV - A Mistake of the Postboy's -- Chapter V - On Both Sides of the Atlantic -- Chapter VI - An Unfair Endowment -- Chapter VII - On Board the "Meridiana" -- Chapter VIII - The Second-Class Passenger -- Chapter IX - Lady Jane Grey -- Chapter X - "Is Lady Anstruthers at Home?" -- Chapter XI - "I Thought You Had All Forgotten" -- Chapter XII - Ughtred -- Chapter XIII - One of the New York Dresses -- Chapter XIV - In the Gardens -- Chapter XV - The First Man -- Chapter XVI - The Particular Incident -- Chapter XVII - Townlinson & Sheppard -- Chapter XVIII - The Fifteenth Earl of Mount Dunstan -- Chapter XIX - Spring in Bond Street -- Chapter XX - Things Occur in Stornham Village -- Chapter XXI - Kedgers -- Chapter XXII - One of Mr. Vanderpoel's Letters -- Chapter XXIII - Introducing G. Selden -- Chapter XXIV - The Political Economy of Stornham -- Chapter XXV - "We Began to Marry Them, My Good Fellow!" -- Chapter XXVI - "What it Must Be to You-Just You!" -- Chapter XXVII - Life -- Chapter XXVIII - Setting Them Thinking -- Chapter XXIX - The Thread of G. Selden -- Chapter XXX - A Return -- Chapter XXXI - No, She Would Not -- Chapter XXXII - A Great Ball -- Chapter XXXIII - For Lady Jane -- Chapter XXXIV - Red Godwyn -- Chapter XXXV - The Tidal Wave -- Chapter XXXVI - By the Roadside Everywhere -- Chapter XXXVII - Closed Corridors -- Chapter XXXVIII - At Shandy's -- Chapter XXXIX - On the Marshes -- Chapter LX - "Don't Go on with This" -- Chapter XLI - She Would Do Something -- Chapter XLII - In the Ballroom -- Chapter XLIII - His Chance -- Chapter XLIV - A Footstep -- Chapter XLV - The Passing Bell -- Chapter XLVI - Listening -- Chapter XLVII - "I Have No Word or Look to Remember".

Chapter XLVIII - The Moment -- Chapter XLIX - At Stornham and at Broadmorlands -- Chapter L - The Primeval Thing.
Abstract:
If you're tired of Victorian heroines who are weak-willed, simpleminded, and utterly incapable of looking out for themselves, you simply must make the acquaintance of Bettina Vanderpoel, the refreshingly shrewd, independent, and level-headed protagonist of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Shuttle. In the early twentieth century, America's nouveau riche families began to marry off their daughters to British aristocrats, and many of these matches were doomed before they even began by...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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