Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories
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A rainy September evening brings three nieces together with Aunt Edna, whose unmarried life has long puzzled the youngest girl. Asked for a true love story, Edna recalls the orphaned Lilly, welcomed into her family's home, and the doctor called through a storm to care for her. As Lilly recovers, Edna's own feelings for the doctor deepen. Frances Henshaw Baden uses this intimate conversation to begin a collection of five short stories.
Family claims and private affection also meet in the passage about Susie and Frank. Frank wants her to marry him and leave, while Susie worries about her grieving father and the younger children in her care. Such scenes give the collection its interest for readers of domestic fiction: decisions take shape through pleading, remembered loss, and small acts of tenderness. The close attention to voices and household relationships makes the pressures behind those decisions easy to follow.
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- Author
- Frances Henshaw Baden
- Reading time
- About 55 minutes
- Pages
- 34
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online