Other Fiction Adams, Henry Brooks: Esther V.1 23rd Mar 10

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Esther, Henry Adams' second and last novel, was published in 1884 under the penname of Francis Compton Snow (Spiller iii). Most critics writing on the subject of Esther Dudley, heroine of the novel, have made the error of identifying her with Adams' Virgin of Chartres because they make too much of her intuition. The resemblance of Esther Dudley to the modern American woman described in the Education is much more marked. In Esther, one finds a heroine unable to unite with a suitor and to assume a role within a family because of her agnosticism, her suitor being Stephen Hazard--an Episcopalian minister.

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