[ Henry Adams / Esther ]
Adams' second and final novel, published under the pseudonyn Francis Compton Snow, explores the life and mind of an independent woman in late 19th Century America. There is only one metaphorical reference to Newfoundlands, in Chapter 9:
Meanwhile the two girls were already down on the edge of the icy river,
talking at first of the scene which lay before their eyes.
"Think what the Greeks would have done with it!" said Wharton. "They would have set Zeus in a throne on Table Rock, firing away his lightnings at Prometheus under the fall."
"Just for a change I rather like our way of sticking advertisements there," said Catherine. "It makes one feel at home."
"A woman feels most the kind of human life in it," said Esther.
"A big, rollicking, Newfoundland dog sort of humanity," said Strong.