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"Life-tangles" by Agnes Giberne is an epistolary novel written in the late 19th century. It follows Rhoda Frith, a candid seventeen-year-old diarist, as she wrestles with temper, jealousy, duty, and faith amid domestic frictions after her mother’s return from India, the presence of older cousins Clarissa and Juliet, and the care of toddler twins. When tensions peak, a stay with her principled Uncle Basil and saintly, invalid Aunt Marian, and the example of the overburdened yet steadfast Millicent Farrars, begin to redirect her toward humility and service.
The opening of the novel shows Rhoda eagerly awaiting her mother’s homecoming, only to be stung by a flat reunion, clingy twins who reject her, and cousins who seem to manage everything. In journal entries she veers between resolutions and outbursts: chafing at correction, failing at early-morning practice, struggling to teach the twins, and resenting Juliet’s “meddling,” until her mother’s gentle but firm reproofs and Uncle Basil’s
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