Jane Journeys On
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At twenty-four, Jane Vail feels her Vermont village closing in around a marriage everyone seems to have arranged in their minds. Martin Wetherby has a respectable banking career and his mother's enthusiastic approval, but Jane is uneasy about the future her neighbors expect. Her attempts to write, a talk on Irish dramatists, and conversations with her childhood friend Sarah Farraday reveal ambitions that reach beyond the village's familiar routines.
Ruth Comfort Mitchell follows Jane into a New York life filled with boarding house acquaintances, music students, theater people, and settlement workers. Literary work becomes a practical occupation as Jane writes a novel and labors over its adaptation for the stage. The novel combines courtship with the daily business of making a career, using lively dialogue and social comedy to explore the pressure to marry and a young woman's wish to choose her own direction.
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- Ruth Comfort Mitchell
- Pages
- 175
- Language
- English
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