Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Life and Gabriella, by Ellen Glasgow This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Author: Ellen Glasgow Release Date: January 3, 2005 [EBook #14571] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE AND GABRIELLA *** Produced by Rick Niles, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. LIFE AND GABRIELLA THE STORY OF A WOMAN'S COURAGE BY ELLEN GLASGOW FRONTISPIECE BY C. ALLAN GILBERT GARDEN CITY -- NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1916 CONTENTS BOOK FIRST—THE AGE OF FAITH CHAPTER PAGE I. Presents a Shameless Heroine 3 II. Poor Jane 30 III. A Start in Life 61 IV. Mirage 90 V. The New World 122 VI. The Old Serpent 148 VII. Motherhood 176 BOOK SECOND—THE AGE OF KNOWLEDGE I. Disenchantment. 211 II. A Second Start in Life 241 III. Work 274 IV. The Dream and the Years 300 V. Success 331 VI. Discoveries 368 VII. Readjustments 406 VIII. The Test 444 IX. The Past 476 X. Dream and the Reality 501 BOOK FIRST THE AGE OF FAITH CHAPTER I PRESENTS A SHAMELESS HEROINE After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour.