The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she thought it would. Clarissa Lovel faced not only an emotionally and financially bereft father, but her first glimpse at love - and that not from the best vantage point. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)
Chapters
1 Chapter I. Coming Home 25 min 2 Chapter II. Beginning the World 13 min 3 Chapter III. Father and Daughter 20 min 4 Chapter IV. Clarissa is "Taken Up" 23 min 5 Chapter V. At Hale Castle 35 min 6 Chapter VI. And This is George Fairfax 17 min 7 Chapter VII. Dangerous Ground 16 min 8 Chapter VIII. Smouldering Fires 24 min 9 Chapter IX. Lady Laura Diplomatises 12 min 10 Chapter X. Lady Laura's Preparations 16 min 11 Chapter XI. Daniel Granger 17 min 12 Chapter XII. Mr. Granger is Interested 16 min 13 Chapter XIII. Open Treason 24 min 14 Chapter XIV. The Morning After 11 min 15 Chapter XV. Chiefly Paternal 16 min 16 Chapter XVI. Lord Chalderwood is the Cause of Inconvenience 20 min 17 Chapter XVII. "'Tis Deepest Winter in Lord Timon's Purse" 15 min 18 Chapter XVIII. Something Fatal 23 min 19 Chapter XIX. Mr. Granger is Precipitate 14 min 20 Chapter XX. Model Villagers 11 min 21 Chapter XXI. Very Far Gone 21 min 22 Chapter XXII. Taking the Pledge 19 min 23 Chapter XXIII. "He's Sweetest Friend or Hardest Foe" 17 min 24 Chapter XXIV. "It's Arden Court" 27 min 25 Chapter XXV. Wedding Bells 13 min 26 Chapter XXVI. Coming Home 19 min 27 Chapter XXVII. In the Season 6 min 28 Chapter XXVIII. Mr. Wooster 12 min 29 Chapter XXIX. "If I Should Meet Thee--" 31 min 30 Chapter XXX. The Heir of Arden 25 min 31 Chapter XXXI. The Nearest Way to Carlsruhe 36 min 32 Chapter XXXII. Austin 36 min 33 Chapter XXXIII. Only a Portrait-Painter 20 min 34 Chapter XXXIV. Austin's Prospects 8 min 35 Chapter XXXV. Sisters-in-Law 8 min 36 Chapter XXXVI. "And Through the Life Have I Not Writ My Name?" 13 min 37 Chapter XXXVII. Stolen Hours 18 min 38 Chapter XXXVIII. "From Clarissa" 11 min 39 Chapter XXXIX. That is What Love Means 16 min 40 Chapter XL. Lying in Wait 16 min 41 Chapter XLI. Mr. Granger's Welcome Home 8 min 42 Chapter XLII. Caught in a Trap 41 min 43 Chapter XLIII. Clarissa's Elopement 26 min 44 Chapter XLIV. Under the Shadow of St. Gudule 10 min 45 Chapter XLV. Temptation 18 min 46 Chapter XLVI. On the Wing 8 min 47 Chapter XLVII. In Time of Need 32 min 48 Chapter XLVIII. "Strangers Yet" 23 min 49 Chapter XIL. Beginning Again 21 min 50 Chapter L. How Such Things End 13 min
