“Job Hildreth” by Mrs. E. F. Pinsent (Arnold), is a pathetic and interesting study of a man, a carpenter by profession, with an intense love of beauty and a certain taste for art. This appreciation he unluckily confounds with genius, and is encouraged in the idea by Lady Elizabeth Hinton, the chief personage in his village. Lady Elizabeth sends him up to London, introduces him and his pictures to her friends, and helps him on to a certain fictitious success, holding him up as a great example of self-taught genius. When, however, besides patronising him as an artist, she tries to arrange a marriage between him and another of her protegees, he kicks over the traces, returns to his country home, and marries the little village girl who has loved him since the days when they were children together. The rest of the story is simply and pathetically told. How Job no longer gets a sale for his pictures, how his wife Sally works day and night to keep the little home together, until at last by poverty and despair he becomes temporarily insane, is all described forcibly, such allegories, and is well illustrated by Bauerle.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949