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Fiction · 1907

The Shuttle

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Reading time
about 15.5 h
Length
214,064 words · 372 pages
Structure
50 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

The Shuttle, first published in 1907, 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

  1. Chapter I — The Weaving of the Shuttle
  2. Chapter II — A Lack of Perception
  3. Chapter III — Young Lady Anstruthers
  4. Chapter IV — A Mistake of the Postboy’s
  5. Chapter V — On Both Sides of the Atlantic
  6. Chapter VI — An Unfair Endowment
  7. Chapter VII — On Board the “Meridiana”
  8. Chapter VIII — The Second-Class Passenger
  9. Chapter IX — Lady Jane Grey
  10. Chapter X — “Is Lady Anstruthers at Home?”
  11. Chapter XI — “I Thought You Had All Forgotten.”
  12. Chapter XII — Ughtred
  13. Chapter XIII — One of the New York Dresses
  14. Chapter XIV — In the Gardens
  15. Chapter XV — The First Man
  16. Chapter XVI — The Particular Incident
  17. Chapter XVII — Townlinson & Sheppard
  18. Chapter XVIII — The Fifteenth Earl of Mount Dunstan
  19. Chapter XIX — Spring in Bond Street
  20. Chapter XX — Things Occur in Stornham Village
  21. Chapter XXI — Kedgers
  22. Chapter XXII — One of Mr. Vanderpoel’s Letters
  23. Chapter XXIII — Introducing G. Selden
  24. Chapter XXIV — The Political Economy of Stornham
  25. Chapter XXV — “We Began to Marry Them, My Good Fellow!”
  26. Chapter XXVI — “What It Must Be to You—Just You!”
  27. Chapter XXVII — Life
  28. Chapter XXVIII — Setting Them Thinking
  29. Chapter XXIX — The Thread of G. Selden
  30. Chapter XXX — A Return
  31. Chapter XXXI — No, She Would Not
  32. Chapter XXXII — A Great Ball
  33. Chapter XXXIII — For Lady Jane
  34. Chapter XXXIV — Red Godwyn
  35. Chapter XXXV — The Tidal Wave
  36. Chapter XXXVI — By the Roadside Everywhere
  37. Chapter XXXVII — Closed Corridors
  38. Chapter XXXVIII — At Shandy’s
  39. Chapter XXXIX — On the Marshes
  40. Chapter LX — “Don’t Go on with This”
  41. Chapter XLI — She Would Do Something
  42. Chapter XLII — In the Ballroom
  43. Chapter XLIII — His Chance
  44. Chapter XLIV — A Footstep
  45. Chapter XLV — The Passing Bell
  46. Chapter XLVI — Listening
  47. Chapter XLVII — “I Have No Word or Look to Remember”
  48. Chapter XLVIII — The Moment
  49. Chapter XLIX — At Stornham and at Broadmorlands
  50. Chapter L — The Primeval Thing

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About the author

Frances Hodgson Burnett

1849–1924 · Victorian

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was born in Manchester and emigrated with her widowed mother to Tennessee in 1865. She supported the family by writing magazine stories and became a successful novelist and playwright on both sides of the Atlantic. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911) are the books for which she is remembered.

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