The Story of Avis
- Authors
- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Tags
- classics
- ISBN
- 9780813510989
- Date
- 1877-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.43 MB
- Lang
- en
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 career as an artist and rejects marriage and motherhood, until she meets the charismatic young professor Philip Ostrander.