The Story of Avis by Carol Phillips, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

250 pages first pub 1877 (editions)

fiction classics literary reflective slow-paced
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a talented painter, and bucks against the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. She wants to pursue a...

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