The Romantic Comedians (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ellen Glasgow
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fiction of manners
- Time of Work: 1920’s
- Setting: Richmond, Virginia
- Principal Characters: Judge Gamaliel Bland Honeywell, Annabel, Mrs. Upchurch, Edmonia Bredalbane, Amanda Lightfoot
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Virginia
- Locales: Richmond, VA
The Story:
As Judge Honeywell walked home from church on the first Easter morning after his wife’s death, he was surprised by his own reactions to the Virginia springtime. He felt quite young, for sixty-five, and life with his wife, now dead, seemed so remote as never to have happened. In fact, he felt relieved, for his first wife had seldom let him lead an existence of his own.
The Judge hospitably looked after Mrs. Upchurch and her daughter Annabel because they were kinswomen of his late wife; but shortly after a memorable Easter morning, he began to think of...
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