A character in this novel is sent off to a library to learn the "Ps and Qs" from the "alphabet of common sense.
A character in this novel is sent off to a library to learn the "Ps and Qs" from the "alphabet of common sense." In this novel's closing sentence, the protagonist sits with her needlework again, "for life, as it were." Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted this novel into the Broadway play The Heiress. The protagonist of this novel wears a gaudy red dress with gold fringe to the engagement party of her friend Marian Almond. The main couple in this novel break off their engagement after the woman returns from a year long grand tour of Europe with her father. In this novel, the spinstress Lavinia Penniman dispenses unwanted matrimonial advice to, and essentially adopts as a son, the dashing suitor Morris Townsend. For 10 points, name this Henry James novel about the courtship of Catherine Sloper, the daughter of physician Austin Sloper, set in a namesake Manhattan neighborhood.
A character in this novel is sent off to a library to learn the "Ps and Qs" from the "alphabet of common sense.
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