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Shuttle

Twelve years after her sister's marriage to the Englishman Sir Nigel, American heiress Betty Vanderpoel is worried about her sister, who hasn't been in communication for some time, and travels to England, where she sets out to help her sister and finds love of her own along the way.

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  • "Project Gutenberg etext of The shuttle"
  • "Project Gutenberg presents The shuttle"

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  • "Twelve years after her sister's marriage to the Englishman Sir Nigel, American heiress Betty Vanderpoel is worried about her sister, who hasn't been in communication for some time, and travels to England, where she sets out to help her sister and finds love of her own along the way."@en
  • "Rosalie Vanderpoel, daughter of a wealthy American, marries into a British family of aristocrats, only to discover that they are impoverished. She is unable to contact her family back home and her sister Bettina, having become suspicious, travels to England to find out what happened. When she arrives, her money and spunk revitalize the English society she comes in contact with, suggesting that Britain needs to adopt an American mentality if it is to improve its future."
  • ""A story of a rich heiress who tries to rescue her older sister from her rich, abusive husband" --Provided by publisher."@en
  • "If you're tired of Victorian heroines who are weak-willed, simpleminded, and utterly incapable of looking out for themselves, you simply must make the acquaintance of Bettina Vanderpoel, the refreshingly shrewd, independent, and level-headed protagonist of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Shuttle. In the early twentieth century, America's nouveau riche families began to marry off their daughters to British aristocrats, and many of these matches were doomed before they even began by ..."@en

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  • "Blind-blocked bindings (gathered matter components)"@en
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Americans"@en
  • "Romance fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable World Book ebooks"@en
  • "Net grain cloth bindings"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "History"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "American fiction"@en
  • "Cloth case bindings"@en
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  • "Shuttle"
  • "Shuttle"@en
  • "The Shuttle Vol. 2"
  • "The shuttle"
  • "The shuttle"@en
  • "The Shuttle Vol. 1"
  • "The shuttle : in two volumes"
  • "The Shuttle"@en
  • "The Shuttle"
  • "Tajemnica dworu w Stornham"@pl

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