A Serious Widow
by Constance Beresford-Howe
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At the age of 50, newly widowed Rowena Hill feels only relief to be free of her penny-pinching fusspot of a husband. As she makes her stumbling efforts to become fulfilled as a woman and a wage-earner, well-intentioned friends and her overbearing daughter all make plans for her future, with results that are sometimes comical, sometimes disastrous. However, Rowena's growing taste for independence leads her to a solution to her problems that no one could have predicted and which astonishes show more even herself. First published in 1991, A Serious Widow collected glowing reviews. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1991
- Important places
- Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
- Epigraph
- "I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you--Nobody--too?"
_____Emily Dickinson - First words
- Of course I didn't argue when poor weeping Marion insisted that I wear this silly hat. It doesn't fit--daughters' heads for some reason bigger than their mothers'--and the wind keeps shoving it to one side, so I feel like the... (show all) stooge of some knockabout comedian.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Don't ever leave me, will you, Ethel."
"Oh," she says serenely, "I'll be around."
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
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