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The Story of Avis
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Publisher Price: $32.00
Publisher: Mandylion Press
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 432
Language: English
Choose a career or choose a family: Ward's 1877 novel exposes and eviscerates the false dichotomy of modern womanhood
Avis Dobell is a talented young painter on the rise, working to establish herself, when she meets professor Philip Ostrander. Though she has sworn to never marry and at first rejects her suitor, she relents after he returns wounded from the Civil War. Ultimately, Avis fills her days with thoughts of doilies and daycare instead of paints and palettes. Following Avis' struggles to balance her passion with her duties, Phelps' novel proves that artistic ambition is not extinguished by love, but slowly eroded by the constraints of 19th-century womanhood.
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