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    Emily Hudson: A Novel
    Emily Hudson: A Novel
    Emily Hudson: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    Emily Hudson: A Novel

    Written by Melissa Jones

    Narrated by Lorna Raver

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    After the start of the Civil War, Emily Hudson-an orphan who lost her family to consumption and fever-finds herself the begrudged guest at the home of her relatives in Newport. Emily's longing to be an artist is dismissed by her puritanical uncle, who wants nothing more than to rid himself of her through marriage. Her only friend is her aesthete cousin, William, an ailing young writer. When a promising engagement to the eligible Captain Lindsay is broken, William rescues Emily from an uncertain future by taking her to England. Lonely and desperate to escape her cousin-once her confidant, now her obsessively controlling patron-Emily sets out alone to meet her destiny in the eternal city of Rome.

    Reminiscent of the novels of Edith Wharton, Emily Hudson is an exquisitely told tale about a heroine struggling to be true to herself and to also find love in a society where only marriage or an independent income guaranteed a woman the freedom to do as she pleased.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 2, 2010
    ISBN9781400189267
    Emily Hudson: A Novel
    Author

    Melissa Jones

    MELISSA JONES was born in London, where she now lives. This is her third novel.

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      Emily Hudson, by Melissa Jones, is a quiet romance occuring during the end of the Civil War. Emily is a young lady, orphaned by consumption, with no alternative but to allow herself to be taken in by wealthy relatives--none of whom seem to think very highly of her. Through correspondence with her dearest friend from school, Emily shows the reader her conscience and her soul. Afraid of developing consumption herself, in love with a man she feels she cannot marry, and beholden to a cousin who has only his own interests at heart, Emily drifts through day after day, her only joy a love of art. When she removes herself to Rome, Italy to finally stand on her own, we see a more self-possessed Emily emerge. It is as she finally comes into her own and attains the love she thought she'd never have, that the beauty in Emily's story appears.Though forced to hang on until the very end for satisfaction, reading Emily Hudson is a pleasing endeavor. The heroine is likable and it's difficult to hold back from rooting for her to claim herself and walk proudly into a world of her choosing. I liked this book very much and would recommend it for a lazy Sunday afternoon.