A man of towering intellect resists the power of love.
Ellen Georgiana Clutton-Brock (1845-1894), née Eyre, wrote two novels, of which this is the first. The first volume is good, and the second excellent, as complex characters make believable mistakes; the third, in which Providence intervenes to reward and punish them, is not so disappointing as to ruin the the whole.
“The author of ‘James Gordon’s Wife’ has succeeded by sheer cleverness of writing in making readable, and occasionally really interesting, a story which in less able hands would probably have been insufferably dull.” Athenaeum, May 27, 1871
“The story is an ordinary one enough, with the incidents too obviously arranged to suit a moral; but it is told with a force and a liveliness which altogether redeem the book from the charge of being dull.” Spectator, September 2, 1871
Download this week’s novel:
v.1 https://archive.org/details/james-gordons-wife-1
v.2-3 http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph014384326
(Right-click (or control-click, if you have a Mac) on the “view digitized copy” links to download the novel’s three volumes in pdf form)