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Early Autumn

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Early Autumn is a 1926 novel by Louis Bromfield.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })It centers around the Pentlands, an aristocratic family in the fictional town of Durham, Massachusetts. John Pentland, the family patriarch, hates the tide of social change that is undermining the old traditional WASPy social structure of the town. He lives with his widowed sister Cassie, a bitter scold. John Pentland's wife went insane decades ago and is locked away in the mansion. John's son Anson is stuck in a loveless marriage with Olivia; their teenaged son Jack is sickly. Their daughter Sybil has just come home from a Paris boarding school.Into this mix comes Sabine Callender, Cassie's niece by marriage, once Cassie's ward after her parents died when she was young. Twenty years ago Sabine left Durham suddenly, marrying a poor man and decamping to Europe. This caused a scandal in town society, and the Pentlands, and especially Cassie, resent Sabine. A now-widowed Sabine has moved back to Durham, and her daughter Therese is making her debut as a debutante in local society.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Many very messy family complications ensue.
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Big, Screwed-Up Family:Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })
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Asexuality: Anson. Olivia remembers "his timid advances" and "the distaste with which he approached the details of marriage". Eventually she figures out that he got married only because the family wanted a male heir, and that Anson, "left to himself, would never have approached any woman, and gone to the grave as virginal as he had been born." Sabine thinks this is true of Aunt Cassie as well; she believes the reason Cassie never had children is that she never let her husband touch her.
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Anguished Declaration of Love
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Anguished Declaration of Love: It takes a long time for Jean to spit out how much he loves Sybil, but he finally manages it.
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Well, let's see, an Ill Boy, a Madwoman in the Attic, a loveless marriage, a granddaughter who's paying a little too much attention to the Nouveau Riche Catholic neighbor, much to her father's rage...
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Awful Wedded Life: Anson and Olivia can't stand each other. In fact, they've never been close. They've slept in separate beds for 15 years.
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