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The Story of Avis

The Story of Avis

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
Porsella, Madeline

Paperback

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN13: 9798988606185
Publisher: Mandylion Press
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.40
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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