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Daisy
by Susan Warner
- Language
- EN
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- EPUB
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This novel is a work of mid-19th-century British fiction written in prose. It narrates the experiences of a young girl named Daisy as she adjusts to life at her family's estate, Magnolia, following a family crisis. The story concentrates on her childhood innocence, her pursuit of education, and the social distinctions she observes between her family and those they interact with. The narrative begins with Daisy reflecting on her transition from a joyful childhood to a period shadowed by familial difficulties. She travels to Magnolia with her Aunt Gary and awaits her governess, Miss Pinshon, shaping much of the early plot through her impressions of her new environment.
The novel is primarily focused on themes of childhood, social contrast, and moral development within a domestic setting. It is set in a period of British history where societal structures and familial relationships significantly influence personal growth. The work provides insight into mid-19th-century notions of innocence and morality within a genteel context.
The novel is primarily focused on themes of childhood, social contrast, and moral development within a domestic setting. It is set in a period of British history where societal structures and familial relationships significantly influence personal growth. The work provides insight into mid-19th-century notions of innocence and morality within a genteel context.
From the opening pages
I WANT an excuse to myself for writing my own life; an excuse for the indulgence of going it all over again, as I have so often gone over bits. It has not been more remarkable than thousands of others. Yet every life has in it a thread of present truth and possible glory. Let me follow out the truth to the glory. The first bright years of my childhood I will pass. They were childishly bright. They lasted till my eleventh summer. Then the light of heavenly truth was woven in with the web of my mortal existence; and whatever the rest of the web has been, those golden threads have always run through it all the rest of the way. Just as I reached my birthday that summer and was ten years old, I became a Christian. For the rest of that summer I was a glad child. The brightness of those days is a treasure safe locked up in a chamber of my memory. I have known other glad times too in my life; other times of even higher enjoyment. But among all the dried flowers of my memory, there is not one that keeps a fresher perfume or a stronger scent of its life than this one. Those were the days without cloud; before life shadows had begun to cast their blackness over the landscape. And even though such shadows do go as well as come, and leave the intervals as sunlit as ever; yet after that change of the first life shadow is once seen, it is impossible to forget that it may come again and darken the sun. I do not mean that the days of that summer were absolutely without things to trouble me; I had changes of light and shade; but, on the whole, nothing that did not heighten the light. They were pleasant days that I had in Juanita's cottage at the time when my ankle was broken; there were hours of sweetness with crippled Molly; and it was simply delight I had all alone with my pony Loupe, driving over the sunny and shady roads, free to do as I liked and go where I liked. And how I enjoyed studying English history with my cousin Preston. It is all stowed away in my heart, as fresh and sweet as at first. I will not pull it out now. The…
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