Dumaresq's Daughter (Vol. 1-3)
A Victorian Family Saga of Inheritance, Reputation, Marriage, and Moral ResponsibilityBy Grant Allen
Length13h 6m
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Grant Allen's *Dumaresq's Daughter* is a substantial three-volume Victorian novel that combines the conventions of romantic fiction, social-problem narrative, and domestic melodrama. Its central female figure becomes the focus through which the novel examines inheritance, marriage, sexuality, class identity, and the restrictive codes governing respectable womanhood. Allen's prose is brisk, analytical, and often edged with irony: beneath the movement of courtship, family conflict, and social negotiation lies a sustained inquiry into how character is shaped by custom and circumstance. The work belongs to the late-nineteenth-century transition from conventional sensation fiction toward the more openly argumentative "New Woman" novel, while retaining the narrative momentum and emotional reversals of popular fiction. Born in Canada and established in Britain, Allen was a prolific novelist, essayist, and popular writer on science whose interest in evolution, rationalism, and social reform informed his treatment of human behavior. His fiction frequently challenges inherited moral assumptions by placing individual desire and intellectual independence against institutions presented as natural or immutable. Written before the more polemical *The Woman Who Did*, *Dumaresq's Daughter* reveals the developing form of Allen's engagement with gender politics and Victorian social criticism. The novel will reward readers interested in the intersection of literary entertainment and cultural debate. It is especially valuable for students of Victorian fiction, women's writing, marriage-plot conventions, and the history of secular and reformist thought. Readers seeking a richly contextualized, intellectually provocative, and narratively engaging account of female autonomy will find this complete three-volume work a compelling example of Allen's ambitious social imagination.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length13 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
2Volume 1
3Chapter I. By the Gate of the Sea.
4Chapter II. Linnell's Mysteries.
5Chapter III. Love—Thirty.
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6Chapter IV. A Prophet is Not Without Honour.
7Chapter V. A Modern Stoic.
8Chapter VI. A Slight Misunderstanding.
9Chapter VII. At The United Service.
10Chapter VIII. Getting On.
11Chapter IX. For Strategic Reasons.
12Chapter X. As Between Gentlemen.
13Chapter XI. Fool's Paradise.
14Chapter XII. The Bubble Bursts.
15Volume 2
16Chapter XIII. The Parson in Northumberland.
17Chapter XIV. Rack and Thumbscrew.
18Chapter XV. In the Crucible.
19Chapter XVI. On the Spur of the Moment.
20Chapter XVII. Then and in that Case.
21Chapter XVIII. In a Beleaguered City.
22Chapter XIX. A Little Cloud.
23Chapter XX. At Bay.
24Chapter XXI. An Anxious Moment.
25Chapter XXII. The Beginning of the End.
26Chapter XXIII. The Fall of Khartoum.
27Chapter XXIV. An Hour of Triumph.
28Chapter XXV. And After.
29Chapter XXVI. Despair.
30Chapter XXVII. Medical Opinion.
31Volume 3
32Chapter XXVIII. Questions of Inheritance.
33Chapter XXIX. Fresh Acquaintances.
34Chapter XXX. Psyche in Africa.
35Chapter XXXI. A Nile Tourist.
36Chapter XXXII. Shopping.
37Chapter XXXIII. A New Suitor.
38Chapter XXXIV. A Vision of the Night.
39Chapter XXXV. Unexpected.
40Chapter XXXVI. One Hope is Too Like Despair.
41Chapter XXXVII. From Cincinnati.
42Chapter XXXVIII. Across the Desert.
43Chapter XXXIX. Fortune's Wheel.
44Chapter XL. Which Linnell?
45Chapter XLI. The Mystery Solved.
46Chapter XLII. The Meeting.
47Chapter XLIII. The Faith Cure.
48Chapter XLIV. 'All's Well That Ends Well.'
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