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- Comfort and Mirth
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: TCU Press
summary
Comfort and Mirth offers a rare glimpse into the capital city of Texas during the years of World War I, the formation of the Texas suffrage movement, the prohibition, and the first round of controversies over the Jim Crow Laws. It traces the growth of Austin from a frontier town to a cosmopolitan southwestern city including such events as the arrival of the first motorcars to the dusty streets Congress Avenue, the opening of the Hancock Opera House, the formation of Elizabet Ney’s sculpture museum in Hyde Park, and the construction, flooding, and reconstruction of the great dam to form the Texas Hill Country lake system.
Set early in the twentieth century, this novel traces a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and struggle for self-empowerment. Camille Abernathy leaves her home and widowed mother in Seattle to move to Austin with her worldly new husband who has accepted a position as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas. As she devotes herself to the tasks required to create a home of ease and elegance for her husband and her children, she is drawn into a whirling social circle of professors’ wives and introduced to the world of urban opulence and hypocrisy. Through the letters she writes to her mother, Camille learns to unravel the complexities of her new life by trusting in her natural instincts and relying on her greatest innate strengths—depth of philosophical and spiritual wisdom.
Table of Contents
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- 1. Daughters
- pp. 5-10
- 2. Perception
- pp. 11-24
- 3. Tidings
- pp. 25-28
- 4. Promises Made
- pp. 29-32
- 5. Germination
- pp. 33-38
- 6. Probability
- pp. 39-45
- 7. Promises Kept
- p. 46
- 10. Dichotomy
- pp. 64-69
- 11. Attachment
- pp. 70-78
- 12. Pleasantries
- pp. 79-97
- 13. The Trellis
- pp. 98-105
- 14. Seedlings
- pp. 106-110
- 15. The Opera
- pp. 111-125
- 16. Sunsets
- pp. 126-127
- 18. Propagation
- pp. 157-163
- 19. Wisdom
- pp. 164-166
- 20. Tinctures
- pp. 167-174
- 21. The Gazebo
- pp. 175-188
- 23. Dewberries
- pp. 202-204
- 26. The Trolley
- pp. 222-229
- 27. Formosa
- pp. 230-240
- 28. Fall Annuals
- pp. 241-244
- 29. Security
- pp. 245-248
- 30. Suffrage
- pp. 249-257
- 31. Parades
- pp. 258-270
- 32. Mirrors
- pp. 271-277
- 33. Salves
- pp. 278-286
- 34. Patterns
- pp. 287-294
- 35. Subtleties
- pp. 295-297
- 36. Desire
- pp. 298-309
- 38. Perennials
- pp. 318-321
- 39. Comfort
- pp. 322-323
Additional Information
ISBN
9780875654782
Related ISBN(s)
9780875653945
MARC Record
OCLC
794701375
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No