by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Domestic and Social Fiction · Romantic Love · Class
Abstract
An epistolary novel told through the courtship and early-married letters of Frank Crosse and Maude Selby, drawing on Conan Doyle’s own first marriage. It traces their engagement, money worries, and the small comic frictions of domestic settling-in.
Capitoli / Chapters
- Chapter 22: THE TRIO
- Chapter 1: THE OVERTURE - ABOUT THAT DATE
- Chapter 2: THE OVERTURE CONTINUED - IN A MINOR KEY
- Chapter 3: THE OVERTURE CONCLUDED
- Chapter 4: THE TWO SOLOS
- Chapter 5: IN BRITAIN’S VALHALLA
- Chapter 6: TWO SOLOS AND A DUET
- Chapter 7: KEEPING UP APPEARANCES
- Chapter 8: THE HOME-COMING
- Chapter 9: LAYING A COURSE
- Chapter 10: CONFESSIONS
- Chapter 11: CONCERNING MRS. BEETON
- Chapter 12: MR. SAMUEL PEPYS
- Chapter 13: A VISIT TO MR. SAMUEL PEPYS
- Chapter 14: TROUBLE
- Chapter 15: A RESCUE
- Chapter 16: THE BROWNING SOCIETY
- Chapter 17: AN INVESTMENT
- Chapter 18: A THUNDERCLOUD
- Chapter 19: DANGER
- Chapter 20: NO. 5 CHEYNE ROW
- Chapter 21: THE LAST NOTE OF THE DUET
- Chapter 22: THE TRIO
Readability (prose)3.5 Flesch ease25.9 FK grade27 Fog15% complex52.8 words/sent
Connections
Forms & Genres: Epistolary Diary Novel, Novel Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Marriage and Fidelity, Money and Avarice, Class Conflict, Economics Motifs: Letters and Writing, Love, Marriage Historical References: Victorian England Settings: London, Rural England Characters: Frank Crosse, Maude Selby Archetypes: Lover