Jill on Project Gutenberg

[regshoe]

Volume I and Volume II!

Thanks very much to luzula for proofreading. :)

Jill by E. A. Dillwyn (published 1884) is an episodic adventure novel about a bold and audacious young lady, Gilbertina 'Jill' Trecastle, who runs away from home and makes her own way in the world as a lady's maid. Flung into the new world of domestic service, Jill ends up working for a series of variously colourful characters. The most significant of these, Kitty Mervyn, exerts a strange fascination over Jill, who, selfish and self-reliant, prides herself on not caring for anyone—but finds that this resolve becomes difficult to maintain. Jill accompanies Kitty on her travels to the island of Corsica, where together they face more danger and adventure than they anticipated...

I can highly recommend this book, and certainly enjoyed putting the ebook together! And I've learnt a lot more about the process—things in general went far more smoothly now that I understand the basic shape of what I had to do, I've learnt various different ways to use < table > to format a table of contents and I can now make zip files properly, which is surprisingly difficult to do on a Mac.

Comments

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I got the PG newsletter this morning, and when I went to the site, I saw "Jill" right on the front page and immediately thought of you! *high fives*

[regshoe]

Aww! *high fives back* I do like seeing my ebooks in that 'latest ebooks' list on the front page—it gives a real sense of accomplishment. :D

[luzula]

Nice, congratulations on posting! : ) Do you go back and check on your books later to see whether they have downloads?

[regshoe]

Hehe, yes I do (Sir Isumbras has 24 :D). Oddly, there seems to be some sort of bug that makes the download numbers look improbably high shortly after it's posted—that happened with Sir Isumbras and is now happening with Jill too—but they seem to go back to normal after a while.