![]() Her brother, whom she’s very close to, invites her to join him at a salon on the ritzy Fifth Avenue, hosted by another writer, John Hopper. She’s devastated, of course, and throws herself into her writing to try to forget her betrayal. She is desperately in love with him and assumes he feels the same.īut then in the opening chapter, he proposes to another girl, and it’s fairly clear it’s because this other girl comes from a very wealthy family and Charlie’s family is in financial straits (as is Virginia’s). ![]() She knows exactly what publisher she’d want to work with, and she spends all her time writing.Īside from her literary dreams, her other main life plan is to marry Charlie, who lives next door and whom she’s known all her life. Her dream is to become a celebrated novelist, despite the fact that in the 1890s, this is a hard thing for a woman to achieve. One sister is a pianist, another creates hats, another is a dedicated teacher, and her brother paints. The story is told by Virginia Loftin and she’s one of four sisters (along with a brother) in a very artistic family. the fifth avenue artists society by joy callaway ![]() I’m not even sure WHY it took me so long to get through it – I enjoyed it well enough, but I guess it never sucked me in enough to really prioritize it among my other reading choices.įrom the beginning, it felt like something of a Little Women retelling. I requested the Kindle version from the library and kept not finishing it and finally, I just had to turn my Kindle on to airplane mode in November so it wouldn’t return and I didn’t request or download anything new until I finished it (the first week of January). The Fifth Avenue Artists Society was my Tell Me What to Read choice for AUGUST, so I’m maybe running a smidge behind here. ![]()
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