Fiction · 1886
He Fell in Love with His Wife
He Fell in Love with His Wife, first published in 1886, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Chapter I — Left Alone
- Chapter II — A Very Interested Friend
- Chapter III — Mrs. Mumpson Negotiates and Yields
- Chapter IV — Domestic Bliss
- Chapter V — Mrs. Mumpson Takes Up Her Burdens
- Chapter VI — A Marriage!
- Chapter VII — From Home to the Street
- Chapter VIII — Holcroft’s View of Matrimony
- Chapter IX — Mrs. Mumpson Accepts Her Mission
- Chapter X — A Night of Terror
- Chapter XI — Baffled
- Chapter XII — Jane
- Chapter XIII — Not Wife, but Waif
- Chapter XIV — A Pitched Battle
- Chapter XV — “What is to Become of Me?”
- Chapter XVI — Mrs. Mumpson’s Vicissitudes
- Chapter XVII — A Momentous Decision
- Chapter XVIII — Holcroft Gives His Hand
- Chapter XIX — A Business Marriage
- Chapter XX — Uncle Jonathan’s Impression of the Bride
- Chapter XXI — At Home
- Chapter XXII — Getting Acquainted
- Chapter XXIII — Between the Past and Future
- Chapter XXIV — Given Her Own Way
- Chapter XXV — A Charivari
- Chapter XXVI — “You Don’t Know.”
- Chapter XXVII — Farm and Farmer Bewitched
- Chapter XXVIII — Another Waif
- Chapter XXIX — Husband and Wife in Trouble
- Chapter XXX — Holcroft’s Best Hope
- Chapter XXXI — “Never!”
- Chapter XXXII — Jane Plays Mouse to the Lion
- Chapter XXXIII — “Shrink from YOU?”
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