Joan and Co. by Frederick Orin Bartlett
"Joan and Co." by Frederick Orin Bartlett is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on Joan Fairburne, a wealthy New York debutante bored with society’s routines, her earnest suitor Dicky Burnett, and Mark Devons, a struggling inventor, whose lives intersect after a fateful accident, setting up a story of class, purpose, and romance. The opening of the novel follows Dicky, a likable but idle young man in his
father’s patent-leather business, as he resolves to propose to Joan and earns his father’s backing. It then shifts to Joan’s restlessness, shaped by her late college friend Mildred Devons, and her longing for a “big adventure” beyond guarded high-society life. In a parallel thread, Mark Devons—Mildred’s cousin and a hungry, determined Technology graduate—fails to secure financing for his leather-dressing invention, refuses a predatory buyout, and, weak with hunger, is struck by Joan’s limousine in a snowstorm. Joan brings him to her home, where he recovers under Dr. Nichols’s care; she visits, reads to him, and talks frankly about blame and fate, while Dicky is kept at arm’s length, writes a heartfelt letter, and bristles when he senses Joan’s new focus on the convalescent inventor. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Bartlett, Frederick Orin, 1876-1945 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 19012170 |
| Title | Joan and Co. |
| Original Publication | Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. |
| Credits | Matthew Sleadd, Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Mate selection -- Fiction |
| Subject | Children of the rich -- Fiction |
| Subject | Rich people -- Fiction |
| Subject | Social classes -- Fiction |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | Inventors -- Fiction |
| Subject | Business enterprises -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78046 |
| Release Date | Feb 26, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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