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Bambi
Marjorie Benton CookeA practical young woman decides that an impractical writer needs her—and a livelihood.
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About the book
Francesca Parkhurst, called Bambi, has grown up managing the needs of an absent-minded mathematical father. She now turns her energy toward Jarvis Jocelyn, a gifted but financially unsuccessful writer whom she decides to marry before he has seriously considered the possibility. The arrangement brings questions of work, ambition, and emotional understanding into the household. Bambi's practical intelligence challenges the idea that women should simply wait to be supported, while Jarvis must confront the distance between artistic conviction and the world in which writing is produced and sold. Marjorie Benton Cooke develops the situation as a lively romance, using banter and theatrical ambitions to test what partnership might mean for two distinctly unequal kinds of dreamer.
- Creative work
- Marriage and independence
- Practicality and idealism
Why read it
Meet an energetic heroine who treats romance as something she can initiate and shape through her own abilities.
English novel by Marjorie Benton Cooke, originally published in 1914
Contents and reading sections
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8
- Section 9
- Section 10
- Section 11
- Section 12
- Section 13
- Section 14
- Section 15
- Section 16
- Section 17
- Section 18
- Section 19
- Section 20
- Section 21
- Section 22
- Section 23
- Section 24
- Section 25
- Section 26
- Section 27
- Section 28
- Section 29
- Section 30
- Section 31
- Section 32