Ten Degrees Backward

Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft, 1860-1929Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 525K words
Chapters: 53

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Ten Degrees Backward by Ellen Thorneycroft FowlerAuthor: Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft, 1860-1929,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Jul 8, 2018

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This is an English novel by the British writer Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, prepared by Project Gutenberg as a free e-book. Fowler was active from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and her works often concern the social customs and interpersonal relationships of her time, with a tone of gentle satire and moral observation. As a public-domain literary resource, the book's value lies mainly in allowing readers to encounter late Victorian to Edwardian English popular fiction at no cost, and to understand the narrative pace, characterization, and everyday ethical topics of the period. The electronic edition is convenient for searching and excerpting, suitable as supplementary reading for English literature courses or for casual reading by those interested in social novels of that era. Note that this is a historical text without modern editing; formatting and wording may bear the marks of its time, and readers should maintain a historically contextualized understanding.

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Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft, 1860-1929 Author

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1860–1929) was an English writer active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Public information about her life and nationality is limited, and her output was not large. Two of her works are held in this collection, The Farringdons and Ten Degrees Backward; judged by their titles and common classification, they are narrative novels concerned with family, gentry life and the fortunes of their characters, written in a steady tone and attentive to human relationships and everyday ethics. Her writing continues the late-Victorian tradition of plotting and moral observation, building conflict within ordinary settings in plain yet finely shaded prose. Because biographies and critical studies of her are scarce, scholarly discussion of her literary standing remains limited, and these two works are the main basis for understanding her writing.