# A Woman Ventures: A Novel

Author: Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911; Hurlbut, William J. (William James), 1883-1957 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67130

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Woman+Ventures%3A+A+Novel+Phillips&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

For twenty-one years he had been an assistant secretary in the Department of State at Washington--a rather conspicuous position, with a salary of four thousand a year. Influential relatives representing Massachusetts in the House or in the Senate, and often in both, had enabled him to persist through changes of administration and of party control, and to prevail against the “pull” of many an unplaced patriot. Perhaps he might have been a person of consequence had he exercised his talents in some less insidiously lazy occupation. He had begun well at the law; but in return for valuable local services to the party, he got the offer of this political office, and, in what he came to regard as...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-woman-ventures-a-novel-67130/chapters/31/index.md)