An Embarrassing Orphan by W. E. Norris
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ePublished by
June 2025
Originally published 1901
Fiction
Author: W. E. Norris
Illustrator: John Steeple Davis
ePublished by
June 2025
Originally published 1901
Fiction
Author: W. E. Norris
Illustrator: John Steeple Davis
Published in 1901; this digital version was transcribed from a 1904 re-print with illustrations by an American publisher. Full of William Edward Norris’s famous wit and told from the viewpoint of a self-deprecating, first-person narrator, the story is about a staid, old, retired Englishman who is given charge of his nephew’s daughter to raise, and then must wrestle with an ethical conundrum—involving a secret about her inheritance—when she grows old enough for romance.
Naturally, as most fathers do with daughters when they come of age and begin to harbor romantic feelings, our narrator makes every mistake in the book.
This version of the novel includes four illustrations by the well-known artist John Steeple Davis.
Naturally, as most fathers do with daughters when they come of age and begin to harbor romantic feelings, our narrator makes every mistake in the book.
This version of the novel includes four illustrations by the well-known artist John Steeple Davis.