The Arbiter: A Novel
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- English literature students studying late nineteenth-century British fiction
- Researchers interested in women's writing and salon culture
- Readers who enjoy slow-paced character relationships and moral questions
- Teachers who need public-domain English novels for course excerpts
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer strong plots and fast-paced suspense or adventure
- Beginners with limited English reading stamina who need detailed annotations
Reading tips
- Read the first two or three chapters to identify the narrative perspective and character relationships before deciding to read closely or skim.
- Track changes in the main characters' positions and take notes on the theme of "arbitration."
- For course use, pair it with background material on British fiction of the same period for comparative reading.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady Bell (1851–1930), was a British woman writer and playwright. Born in Paris, she was the daughter of the Irish-born doctor Joseph Olliffe, the wife of Sir Hugh Bell, and the stepmother of the explorer Gertrude Bell. She wrote the social study At the Works: A Study of a Manufacturing Town (1907) and a range of plays and children's plays, including Four Short Plays, Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children, and the novel The Arbiter. Her dramatic works were mostly aimed at family and child audiences, short and well suited to performance, while her social study reflects her concern with factory working conditions. In 1918 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). Public information is limited, and details of her life and the influence of her works call for further research.
