A Fountain Sealed

A Fountain Sealed by Anne Douglas Sedgwick is a novel set in the early 20th century. The story follows the life of a young woman named Sarah Baines, who is born into a wealthy family in England. Sarah is a bright and ambitious woman, but her life is complicated by her family's expectations for her to marry well and settle into a life of leisure.Despite her family's objections, Sarah pursues her dreams of becoming a writer and travels to Paris to study literature. While in Paris, she meets and falls in love with a young American writer named John Clewer. John is also ambitious and passionate about his work, but he is struggling to make a name for himself in the literary world.As Sarah and John's relationship deepens, they both face challenges and obstacles that threaten to tear them apart. Sarah's family disapproves of her relationship with John, and John's own insecurities and fears threaten to derail his career and his future with Sarah.Throughout the novel, Sedgwick explores themes of love, ambition, and the struggle to find one's place in the world. A Fountain Sealed is a beautifully written and engaging novel that will appeal to readers who enjoy literary fiction and historical romance.1907. The book begins: In a small drawing-room, whose windows looked out upon a wintry Boston street, three people were sitting. It was a room rather empty and undecorated, but its intense warmth seemed in some degree to furnish it; one couldn't associate austerity with such an almost tropical temperature. There were rows of books on white shelves, a pale Donatello cast on the wall, and two fine bronze vases filled with roses on the mantelpiece. Over the roses hung a portrait in oils, very sleek and very accurate, of a commanding old gentleman in uniform, painted by a well-known German painter, and all about the room were photographs of young women, most of them young mothers, with smooth heads and earnest faces, holding babies. Outside, the snow was heaped high along the pavements and thickly ridged the roofs and lintels. After the blizzard the sun was shining and all the white glittered. The national colors, to a patriotic imagination, were pleasingly represented by the red, white and blue of the brick houses, the snow, and the vivid sky above.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.