The Loves of EdwyRose Cecil O'Neill (1874-1944) was the first female illustrator of Puck magazine and the creator of the enormously successful Kewpies comics. Her first self-illustrated novel, The Loves of Edwy (1904), was described by the New York Times as "tragedy done in a procession of jests. One should read it in that mellow estate of sentiment, which lies between tears and laughter and induces, moreover, a sort of inversion of things by which you laugh at the weeping place." |
Contents
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ADONIS RECEIVES AN ILLUMINATION | 46 |
THE ROAD TO THE EAST | 62 |
POOR CHILDREN | 79 |
How AUNT CORNELIA BECAME A MODIFIED PHILANTHROPIST | 88 |
LEARN THAT AN EYE WILL BE KEPT ON ME | 239 |
THE LOVES OF EDWY | 243 |
A LOVE PASSAGE BETWEEN THE LOVES OF EDWY | 249 |
IN WHICH A GENTLEMAN HUMOROUSLY FASH IONS A SIGNATURE NOT HIS OWN | 258 |
XXVII | 265 |
GOODBYE JANE | 273 |
CONTAINS A KISS | 282 |
AN ASTONISHING CATASTROPHE | 289 |
THE GOING OUT OF THE PLAYMATES | 102 |
THE DISCOMfort of BEING AN UNAPPRECIATED SON | 112 |
IN A LITTLE PINK DRESS | 125 |
AT THE STAGE DOOR | 131 |
A QUIXOTIC VENTURE | 142 |
A TRYST AT THE OLD STONE | 154 |
Woo ONE OF THE SISTER ARTS | 170 |
THE COMING OF EDWY | 179 |
CONTAINING TWO WOOINGS AND AS MANY RE JECTIONS | 188 |
IN WHICH ONE OF THE HEROES IS REQUESTED NOT TO WRITE HIS NAME | 200 |
THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL MOTHER | 207 |
MY LOVE IN THE GROVE | 215 |
A BIRTHDAY PARTY THAT LEFT A SCAR | 222 |
A RATHER MELANCHOLY | 296 |
THE DISCOVERY OF A Loss | 310 |
A DINNER AND A RETROSPECT | 320 |
XXXIV | 331 |
A MESSAGE WITHHELD | 339 |
XXXVI | 345 |
XXXVII | 358 |
XXXIX | 375 |
THE DESERTION | 383 |
A SINGULARLY UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE | 393 |
XLII | 401 |
THE BESIEGEMENT OF JANE | 412 |
IN WHICH A YOUNG MAN IS ROLLED DOWN | 420 |
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