num_pages: 250
description: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a talented painter, and bucks against the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. She wants to pursue a career as an artist and rejects marriage and motherhood, until she meets the charismatic young professor Philip Ostrander.
language: English
title: The Story of Avis
titlecomplete: The Story of Avis
genres: Read For School, American, Art, Female Authors, Adult Fiction, College, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 231
publisher: Rutgers University Press